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“Canto 34 goes back in time to the beginnings of that betrayal. Pound condensed into seven printed pages Allan Nevins’s 575-page Diary of John Quincy Adams (1928),”
― Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years
― Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years
“breaking of the celebratory mood. For George Kearns, one of the most perceptive of Pound’s readers,”
― Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years
― Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years
“A time of speaking, | A time of silence. The resonant phrases are from Ecclesiastes, and they go with the Preacher’s exhortation, ‘Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.’ Speak, act, while you have time in this world of vanities, is the Preacher’s message. Jefferson’s saying ‘It wd. have given us time’ rhymes with that, and with both time and speaking, not to the ear but to the understanding. A feeling for the time is there again in ‘“modern dress for your [i.e. Washington’s] statue”’. Speaking and acting in time modulates in the following lines through ‘remember having written you…water communication…information…a canal | navigation…better information…a communication of it…T. J. to General Washington, 1787’. Those lines compose an ‘intellectual complex’ or vortex and generate a general idea of constructive communications at a particular moment in time.”
― Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years
― Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years
“the principles of Jeffersonian democracy, principles which he still steadfastly defended— The world, the flesh, the devils in hell are Against any man who now in the North American Union shall dare to join the standard of Almighty God to put down the African slave trade…”
― Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years
― Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years
“and powerful towards both the people and the state. He reaffirms the basic cause of ‘our revolution’, No taxation without representation; he insists that government revenue ‘be kept under public control’ and not be given over to the banks to speculate with; and he endorses President Jackson’s saying ‘No where so well deposited as in the pants of the people, | Wealth ain’t’.”
― Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years
― Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years
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