383
German initiated project to build a railroad linking western Europe, Istanbul, Mesopo- tamia and the Persian Gulf.
German initiated project to build a railroad linking western Europe, Istanbul, Mesopo- tamia and the Persian Gulf.
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II
5].
354. Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics, 1095a, has such a statement. Pound analyzes the Ethics with a conclusion as premise: "As ethics, Arry is not fit to clean the boots of Confucius" [GK,326].
355. Katholon: H, "generalities. " 356. hekasta: H, "particulars. " 357. Yaou: Yao [cf. 94 above].
358. Shun: Pound ends the passage about Shun [Chun; cf. 315 above] from Chung Yung in these words: "Shun was a son in the great pattern . . . he perforce came to the throne, perforce had these high honors, perforce this enduring fame, and longevity"
[CON, 133]. And, "He liked to ask ques- tions of people, and to listen to their simple answers. He passed over the malice and
: H,
"Daughter,
the blind
winnowed out the good. He observed their discordant motives and followed the middle line" [CON, 107]. And, "He said: lofty as the spirits of the hills and the grain mother, Shun and Yu held the empire, as if not in a mortar with it" [CON,227].
359. wd/. . . seacoast: In a discussion of what Shun as emperor would have done had his father been guilty of murder. Seeing that he could not order that his father not be arrested as the law justly required, he said: "Shun would have regarded abandoning the empire as throwing away a worn-out sandal. He would privately have taken his father on his back, and retired into concealment, living somewhere along the seacoast" [Legge, 965; Pound's source was Pauthier, 443]. An ana- log to Aeneas carrying his father, Anchises, to safety on his back.
360. son pere: F, "his father. " Both Legge and Pauthier italicize the phrase.
361. Dai Nippon Banzai: J, "Hail to Great Japan. "
362. Kagekiyo: A one-act play [CNTJ, 105-112]. The story of an old blind man whose daughter goes to extremes to find him, but in the end they part. Near the end of the play the chorus says: "The vizard broke and remained in his hand and Miyo- noya still fled afar, and afar, and he looked back crying in terror, 'How terrible, how heavy your arm! ' And Kagekiyo called at him, 'How tough the shaft of your neck is! ' And they both laughed out over the battle, and went off each his own way" [CNTJ, lll].
363. Kumasaka: A play in two acts [CNTJ, 39-45]. The ghost of the hero, Kumasaka, "comes back to praise the bravery of the young man who had killed him in single combat" [CNTJ, 39].
364. quia", est: L, "because it is impossi- ble. " From Tertullian: "Credo qui impossi- ble"; i. e. , "in these domains only faith will sustain me" [HK].
365. Gassir: [cf. 134 above].
. . .
[cf. 362 above].
367. Wemyss: Rosslyn Erskine W. , 1864- 1933, became admiral of the fleet and was created Baron Wester Wemyss in 1919. With Foch, he signed the WWI armistice on behalf of the Allies. He and Lady Wemyss spent part of each year at Cannes, where Pound may have seen the mishap which he de-
scribes of the monocled (glass-eyed) admiral. 368. Gesell: Silvio G. , 1862-1930. Finance
minister in First (independent Socialist) Munich Councils Republik, which lasted from April 7 to 16, 1919. He was subse- quently tried for high treason but was acquitted; thereafter, he wrote numerous books and pamphlets on anarchist and monetary theories.
369. Lindhauer government: Gustave Land- hauer, 1870-1919, German literary scholar. An independent Socialist he was appOinted minister of education to the First Munich Councils Republik in 1919, which resigned after ten days in office. Following the violent overthrow of the Second Munich Councils Republik (600 civilians killed in the streets by the military acting under the orders from the Social Democratic Govern- ment in Berlin), of which he was not a member, Landhauer was arrested and taken to Stadelheim Prison, where he was shot dead on arrival by an army officer [EH].
370. il danaro c'e: I, "the money is there. " Statement made by Pellegrini [cf. 371 below] on November 27,1943. P. told Mhe would allot 125,000 lira per month to him as Hil capo della stato. " M refused, saying that 4000 lira for his family of four would be enough. P. 's response was that M should t,ake it because "the money is there. " M . agreed for a while, but on December 27, 1944 he had further payment stopped [Fang, III, 88]. But M thought it strange
[78/479].
371. Pellegrini:
366. KOPH
man's shining," Persephone and Tiresias are evoked [I :7, 11], also Kagekiyo's daughter
Gianpietro
undersecretary in the Italian Ministry of
Domenico P. ,
? ? ? ? ? I'
403. ~pobob&KTVAO(: pobob&KTVAO(, "rosy- fingered," is the Homeric epithet of Hw 0:;,
382
Finance (1943) in the government of the Salo Republic; official in the Consigli Nazionale and the Corporazione della Providenza e del Credito.
372. cires: Circumstances.
373. musketeers . . . : Prob. "partisans" or a Sale Republic guard. "Rather more" in English idiom suggests several years more. Thus, 20 years plus several after Landhauer's death would be the time of the Sal6 Re- public.
374. IIepoeq,ove,,,: H, "Persephone. " 375. Che pende: I, "that leans. "
376. Pontius: Prob. Pontius Pilate.
377. Von Tirpi! z: Alfred von T. , 1849- 1930, German admiral, who developed submarine and torpedo warfare against Allied commerce in WWI. "Beware of their charm" refers to the English [DG; 77 :2].
378. ~EIPHNE~: H, "Sirens. " The Sirens who charmed sailors are suggested by the Von Tirpitz warning to his daughter.
379. this cross: The grammate cross adopted by Nazi Germany. The swastika with arms directed to the right was thought to repre- sent the vernal progress of the sun
[Shuldiner,Pai, 4-1,81].
380. fau! e de: F, "in lieu of. "
381. XAPITE~: H, "the Graces. "
382. Kuanon: [cf. 81 above].
383. a la marina: I, "to the coast, ashore,"
384. nautilis biancas! ra: I, nautilo bianca- stro: "a white-colored shell," as in Botti- celli's painting of Venus.
385. Dantescan nsmg: In The Divine Comedy, Virgil leads Dante through Hell and up Mt. Purgatory in a systematic, ordered way. At the summit of the Mt. in the Earthly Paradise, Beatrice appears and leads him in an equally orderly way through the various
spheres until they approach the Empyrean.
386. tira libeccio: I, "the southwest wind blows. "
74/442-444
387. Genji: Central character in Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji. A play translated by Pound is entitled Suma Genji [CNTJ, 22-36]. In speaking of the qualities of the Noh, Pound notes "the blue-grey waves and wave pattern in Suma Genji" [p. 27].
388. Suma: Village on Oska Bay, near Kobe, Japan. Here Genji lived in exile from the court [CNTJ,22].
389. Tiro, Alcmene: [cf. 143 above]. People Odysseus sees in Hell.
390. Europa . . . Pasiphae: L, "Europa nor chaste Pasiphae. " Europa, the daughter of Agenor, king of Tyre, was courted and captured by Zeus in the form of a bull. Pasiphae was the wife of King Minos of Crete, the sister of Circe, and the mother of the minotaur.
391. Eurus: The East or Southeast Wind. 392. Apeliota: The East Wind.
393. 10 son la luna: [cf. 285 above]. 394. Cunizza: [cf. 286 above].
395. Rupe Tarpeia: L, "the Tarpeian Cliff," a place in Rome where criminals and traitors were hurled to their death. Perhaps a restau- rant had this name.
396. Castelli: Among the most common wines in Rome.
74/444
"Dawn. " ~PObOb&KTVAO( is the Aeolic form,
found in Sappho as the epithet of oeMvv", Doric of GEAr,Vf], "the moon": Lyra Graeca I, fr. 86, 246 [OBGV, no. 145].
404. Ie contre-jour: F, "against the light. "
405. Achaia: Achaea, region of ancient Greece, N Peloponnesus, on Gulf of Corinth; later the Roman province Achaia, founded by Augustus.
406. Venere: I, "Venus. "
407. Cytherea: L, "Cythera. "
408. aut Rhodon: L, "or Rhodes. "
409. vento ligure, veni: I, "Come Ligurian wind. "
410. Mr. Beardsley: Aubrey Vincent B. , 1872-1898, English illustrator and writer, associated with the symbolist movement and contributor to The Yellow Book.
411. Mr, Kettlewell: Prob. John Kettelwell, a student at SI. John's College, Oxford, in 1913, when Edward, Prince of Wales, was in his first year at Magdalen.
412. pseudo-Beardsley: An unfinished draw- ing of the Prince of Wales on a bicycle done in the manner of Beardsley by W. Lawrence.
383
German initiated project to build a railroad linking western Europe, Istanbul, Mesopo- tamia and the Persian Gulf. J;ingland opposed the plan, thinking it would jeopardize British control of the sea route between Europe and India. Construction started in 1888 and was mostly completed by 1904. The project became a symbol of German imperialism
[EH, Pai, 2-2, 336; Hankins, ibid. , 337; Martin,Pai, 6-2,167-173].
418. Arabia Petra: Arabia Petraea, an ancient cliff city, "a rose-red city half as old as time" [Hankins, Pai, 2-2, 337]; but T. E. Lawrence described the stones there as "red and black and grey with streaks of green and blue. " Lowell Thomas wrote of them as "great rainbows of stone flashing out white, vermilion, saffron, orange, pink, and crimson. " Lawrence was a photog- rapher and probably had his own pictures of Petra.
419. LL. G. : Lloyd George, English prime minister at WWI peace conference at Ver- sailles.
420. frogbassador: Georges Clemenceau, chairman o f V ersailles peace conference. In JIM Pound wrote :"1 saw Arabian Law- rence in London one evening after he had been with Lloyd George and, I think, Clemenceau or at any rate one of the other big pots of the congeries. He wouldn't talk about Arabia, and quite naturally he wouldn't talk about what happened in the afternoon" [p. 33]. Fang writes: "From January to October 1919 T. E. Lawrence was at the Peace Conference with the Arab delegation; he was disgusted with the 'power politics played by Clemenceau and Lloyd George. " And Fang quotes Vyvyan Richards, Portrait of T. E. Lawrence, p. 176: "At Versailles, though, however sympathetically Lloyd George understood Lawrence's concern for Feisal, and however much he would have liked to fulfill the promises made to the Arabs, the French proved immovable. So they got Damascus in the end, and with it endless trouble and expense" [II, 181].
421. Talk modern art: T. E. Lawrence was reluctant to talk of his personal experiences,
397. "Spiritus spirit,' /come. "
veni"/adveni: L,
"'come
398. schema: L, "figure, form. "
399. Arry: Aristotle, who in Nicomachean Ethics, 1, 3, 5-7 (1095a), says political science is not for the young because "they have not experience of life and conduct . . . and they are led by their feelings" [cf. 354 above ] .
400. stagiri! e: Aristotle.
A native
o f
Stagira, here
401. Apeliota: The East Wind.
402. Time . . . evil: [30/147].
George L. , T. E. Lawrence; Will Lawrence invited Pound to SI. John's College to speak on poetry. Pound read a paper on Cava1can~i at Oxford in February 1913 and while there seems to have witnessed Kettlewell telling W. L. , who had run his bicycle into the Prince of Wales, that it was a pity he hadn't run into him
hard enough to kill him.
414. W. L. : William George Lawrence.
415. Edvardus: Future King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor. Here a student at Oxford.
416. a. d. 1910: It would have to be 1913 to have all the people of the passage present in the circumstances indicated.
417. Berlin to Bagdad : [or Baghdad]. A .
413. W. Lawrence:
William brother of
1889-1915,
younger
? 384
which is what people wanted to hear about.
He preferred to talk about the arts [cf. T. E. Lawrence and His Friends, passim, which mentions often his passion to set up a printing press] .
422. T. L. : T. E. Lawrence. Will Lawrence probably showed Pound some of his brother's photographs of the rock temples in Arabia Petra which were probably taken during his second stay at Carchemish (spring 1912- spring 1914). During that time T. E. L. had an unpleasant encounter with Germans constructing the Constantinople-Bagdad line of the 3B (Berlin-Belgrade-Bagdad) railway.
423_ Snow: Thomas Collins S. , M. A. Oxford 1874, lecturer in English language and literature at Jesus College in 1913. He was among those who took part in the discussion after Pound had read his paper on Caval- canti, in which he probably asserted that in some ways Cavalcanti could compare with Sappho_
424. 1JCd/Je~TMT-T-TTT-Cx. { flOL: H, cpCt. llJ? TmI1Ol: "He seems to me. " Sappho's poem "To Anactoria", Lyra Graeca I, fr. 2, p. 186 [OBGV, no. 141], begins with the words: </JIXivEr"" ) l O t <f}Vt<: iao<: ( " A very god he seems to me"). The very aged Snow cited this line as evidence that Sappho was better than Cava1canti.
425. l'aer tremare: I, "the air to tremble"; part of 2d line of Cava1canti's sonnet 7 [T, 38].
426_ Magdalen: A college of Oxford Uni- versity.
427. "The Hound of Heaven": Poem by Francis Thompson, 1859-1907, which appeared in his Poems (1893).
428. burn . nd freeze: Traditional hallmark of Sappho because of an Ambrose Philips translation (1711) of her "Hymn to Aphro- dite" ["To Anactoria" in 424 above], in which he interpolated two lines: "Though now to freeze, he soon shall burn / And be thy victim in his turn. "
429. Siki: "Battling" Siki, a light- heavyweight boxing champion of the 1920"
74/444-446
a Senegalese of brutish strength. But Pound remembered Siki for his deftness not his brutality [HK].
430_ Burr: Prob. prisoner at DTC.
431. Corporal Casey: Member of cadre at DTC.
432. Ie bonhomme Staline: F, "simple Stalin. "
433. Koba: R, "the bear. " Nickname of Stalin as a boy in Georgia [52: II].
434_ Rhys: Ernest R. , 1859-1946. One of the few English editors Pound knew from his earliest years in England and could praise.
435. "A'hv joost. . . . . . . . Tommy Luff": Prob. a comic anecdote Pound heard Rhys tell. The carefully counted dots prob. replace "buggered. "
436_ Clio: The muse of history.
437. Terpsichore: The muse of the dance.
438. Granville: Prob. Harley Granville- Barker, 1877-1946, English actor, manager, and playwright.
439. three ladies: Perhaps the "Tre donne Intorno" [78:133], or the three Graces, or both.
440. eaao/. 1? vowL: H (aspirate euao/J. ? vmm), "for generations to come" [Elpenor's line: 1:12;Od. XI,76].
441. aram vult nemus: L, "the grove needs an altar" [first statement of recurrent theme: 78:91; 79:126; 90/607].
442. Madame Lucrezia: Lucrezia Borgia [30:8,11].
443. Cesena: Town in Fadi Province, Emilia, Italy; controlled by the Malatestas from 1385 to 1465. Site of the Biblioteca Malatestiana, where Pound deposited a copy of A Draft o f XVI. Cantos in 1926.
74/446-447
445_ Torquato where art thou? : Manlio Torquato Dazzi, in 1926 director of the Malatestiana. "There will be a public copy of the XVI in the Malatestiana at Cesena, if Dazzi consents to house it for me" [L, 190].
446. Tevere: I, "Tiber. " Evokes assassina- tion of Duke of Gandia at 5/18 ("Click of hooves on the cobbles") [5 :32,46].
447. la Stuarda: I, "the Stuart. " Mary Queen of Scots [80:423].
448. Mead: George Robert Stow M. , 1863- 1933, editor of a quarterly review called The Quest (London 1909-1930), which was devoted to occult and/or mystic subjects such as reincarnation. Pound wrote about him as having a sense of humor and gave lines from Mead to illustrate: "'1 know so many people who were Mary Queen of Scots. And when I consider what wonderful people they used to be in their earlier incarnations, I ask WHAT they can have been at in the interim to have arrived where
385
pours down" [HK, Pai, I-I, 83; 4:20; 85 :214; cf. 88 above].
456. formato locho: I, "in a prepared place" [LE, 166, from "Donna mi prega"; 36/178].
457. Arachne: The girl who challenged Athena to a weaving contest; because the girl dared to contest the gods, Athena changed her into a spider so she could weave forever; hence, "a spider. "
458. mi porta fortuna: I, "brings me good luck. "
459. EIKONEl:: H, "pictures, images. " 460. Trastevere: [cf. 24 above]. Pound
wrote in A Visiting Card: "And the mosaics in Santa Maria in Trastevere recall a wisdom lost by scholasticism. . . . In his After Strange Gods Eliot loses all the threads of Arachne" [SP,320].
461. black Jim: A servant, during the 1890s, at the Hotel "Easton," the boarding- house at 24 E. 47th St. , New York, run by the Weston branch of Pound's family, where he spent time as a youth ["Indiscre-
tions," PD, 42-50].
462.
354. Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics, 1095a, has such a statement. Pound analyzes the Ethics with a conclusion as premise: "As ethics, Arry is not fit to clean the boots of Confucius" [GK,326].
355. Katholon: H, "generalities. " 356. hekasta: H, "particulars. " 357. Yaou: Yao [cf. 94 above].
358. Shun: Pound ends the passage about Shun [Chun; cf. 315 above] from Chung Yung in these words: "Shun was a son in the great pattern . . . he perforce came to the throne, perforce had these high honors, perforce this enduring fame, and longevity"
[CON, 133]. And, "He liked to ask ques- tions of people, and to listen to their simple answers. He passed over the malice and
: H,
"Daughter,
the blind
winnowed out the good. He observed their discordant motives and followed the middle line" [CON, 107]. And, "He said: lofty as the spirits of the hills and the grain mother, Shun and Yu held the empire, as if not in a mortar with it" [CON,227].
359. wd/. . . seacoast: In a discussion of what Shun as emperor would have done had his father been guilty of murder. Seeing that he could not order that his father not be arrested as the law justly required, he said: "Shun would have regarded abandoning the empire as throwing away a worn-out sandal. He would privately have taken his father on his back, and retired into concealment, living somewhere along the seacoast" [Legge, 965; Pound's source was Pauthier, 443]. An ana- log to Aeneas carrying his father, Anchises, to safety on his back.
360. son pere: F, "his father. " Both Legge and Pauthier italicize the phrase.
361. Dai Nippon Banzai: J, "Hail to Great Japan. "
362. Kagekiyo: A one-act play [CNTJ, 105-112]. The story of an old blind man whose daughter goes to extremes to find him, but in the end they part. Near the end of the play the chorus says: "The vizard broke and remained in his hand and Miyo- noya still fled afar, and afar, and he looked back crying in terror, 'How terrible, how heavy your arm! ' And Kagekiyo called at him, 'How tough the shaft of your neck is! ' And they both laughed out over the battle, and went off each his own way" [CNTJ, lll].
363. Kumasaka: A play in two acts [CNTJ, 39-45]. The ghost of the hero, Kumasaka, "comes back to praise the bravery of the young man who had killed him in single combat" [CNTJ, 39].
364. quia", est: L, "because it is impossi- ble. " From Tertullian: "Credo qui impossi- ble"; i. e. , "in these domains only faith will sustain me" [HK].
365. Gassir: [cf. 134 above].
. . .
[cf. 362 above].
367. Wemyss: Rosslyn Erskine W. , 1864- 1933, became admiral of the fleet and was created Baron Wester Wemyss in 1919. With Foch, he signed the WWI armistice on behalf of the Allies. He and Lady Wemyss spent part of each year at Cannes, where Pound may have seen the mishap which he de-
scribes of the monocled (glass-eyed) admiral. 368. Gesell: Silvio G. , 1862-1930. Finance
minister in First (independent Socialist) Munich Councils Republik, which lasted from April 7 to 16, 1919. He was subse- quently tried for high treason but was acquitted; thereafter, he wrote numerous books and pamphlets on anarchist and monetary theories.
369. Lindhauer government: Gustave Land- hauer, 1870-1919, German literary scholar. An independent Socialist he was appOinted minister of education to the First Munich Councils Republik in 1919, which resigned after ten days in office. Following the violent overthrow of the Second Munich Councils Republik (600 civilians killed in the streets by the military acting under the orders from the Social Democratic Govern- ment in Berlin), of which he was not a member, Landhauer was arrested and taken to Stadelheim Prison, where he was shot dead on arrival by an army officer [EH].
370. il danaro c'e: I, "the money is there. " Statement made by Pellegrini [cf. 371 below] on November 27,1943. P. told Mhe would allot 125,000 lira per month to him as Hil capo della stato. " M refused, saying that 4000 lira for his family of four would be enough. P. 's response was that M should t,ake it because "the money is there. " M . agreed for a while, but on December 27, 1944 he had further payment stopped [Fang, III, 88]. But M thought it strange
[78/479].
371. Pellegrini:
366. KOPH
man's shining," Persephone and Tiresias are evoked [I :7, 11], also Kagekiyo's daughter
Gianpietro
undersecretary in the Italian Ministry of
Domenico P. ,
? ? ? ? ? I'
403. ~pobob&KTVAO(: pobob&KTVAO(, "rosy- fingered," is the Homeric epithet of Hw 0:;,
382
Finance (1943) in the government of the Salo Republic; official in the Consigli Nazionale and the Corporazione della Providenza e del Credito.
372. cires: Circumstances.
373. musketeers . . . : Prob. "partisans" or a Sale Republic guard. "Rather more" in English idiom suggests several years more. Thus, 20 years plus several after Landhauer's death would be the time of the Sal6 Re- public.
374. IIepoeq,ove,,,: H, "Persephone. " 375. Che pende: I, "that leans. "
376. Pontius: Prob. Pontius Pilate.
377. Von Tirpi! z: Alfred von T. , 1849- 1930, German admiral, who developed submarine and torpedo warfare against Allied commerce in WWI. "Beware of their charm" refers to the English [DG; 77 :2].
378. ~EIPHNE~: H, "Sirens. " The Sirens who charmed sailors are suggested by the Von Tirpitz warning to his daughter.
379. this cross: The grammate cross adopted by Nazi Germany. The swastika with arms directed to the right was thought to repre- sent the vernal progress of the sun
[Shuldiner,Pai, 4-1,81].
380. fau! e de: F, "in lieu of. "
381. XAPITE~: H, "the Graces. "
382. Kuanon: [cf. 81 above].
383. a la marina: I, "to the coast, ashore,"
384. nautilis biancas! ra: I, nautilo bianca- stro: "a white-colored shell," as in Botti- celli's painting of Venus.
385. Dantescan nsmg: In The Divine Comedy, Virgil leads Dante through Hell and up Mt. Purgatory in a systematic, ordered way. At the summit of the Mt. in the Earthly Paradise, Beatrice appears and leads him in an equally orderly way through the various
spheres until they approach the Empyrean.
386. tira libeccio: I, "the southwest wind blows. "
74/442-444
387. Genji: Central character in Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji. A play translated by Pound is entitled Suma Genji [CNTJ, 22-36]. In speaking of the qualities of the Noh, Pound notes "the blue-grey waves and wave pattern in Suma Genji" [p. 27].
388. Suma: Village on Oska Bay, near Kobe, Japan. Here Genji lived in exile from the court [CNTJ,22].
389. Tiro, Alcmene: [cf. 143 above]. People Odysseus sees in Hell.
390. Europa . . . Pasiphae: L, "Europa nor chaste Pasiphae. " Europa, the daughter of Agenor, king of Tyre, was courted and captured by Zeus in the form of a bull. Pasiphae was the wife of King Minos of Crete, the sister of Circe, and the mother of the minotaur.
391. Eurus: The East or Southeast Wind. 392. Apeliota: The East Wind.
393. 10 son la luna: [cf. 285 above]. 394. Cunizza: [cf. 286 above].
395. Rupe Tarpeia: L, "the Tarpeian Cliff," a place in Rome where criminals and traitors were hurled to their death. Perhaps a restau- rant had this name.
396. Castelli: Among the most common wines in Rome.
74/444
"Dawn. " ~PObOb&KTVAO( is the Aeolic form,
found in Sappho as the epithet of oeMvv", Doric of GEAr,Vf], "the moon": Lyra Graeca I, fr. 86, 246 [OBGV, no. 145].
404. Ie contre-jour: F, "against the light. "
405. Achaia: Achaea, region of ancient Greece, N Peloponnesus, on Gulf of Corinth; later the Roman province Achaia, founded by Augustus.
406. Venere: I, "Venus. "
407. Cytherea: L, "Cythera. "
408. aut Rhodon: L, "or Rhodes. "
409. vento ligure, veni: I, "Come Ligurian wind. "
410. Mr. Beardsley: Aubrey Vincent B. , 1872-1898, English illustrator and writer, associated with the symbolist movement and contributor to The Yellow Book.
411. Mr, Kettlewell: Prob. John Kettelwell, a student at SI. John's College, Oxford, in 1913, when Edward, Prince of Wales, was in his first year at Magdalen.
412. pseudo-Beardsley: An unfinished draw- ing of the Prince of Wales on a bicycle done in the manner of Beardsley by W. Lawrence.
383
German initiated project to build a railroad linking western Europe, Istanbul, Mesopo- tamia and the Persian Gulf. J;ingland opposed the plan, thinking it would jeopardize British control of the sea route between Europe and India. Construction started in 1888 and was mostly completed by 1904. The project became a symbol of German imperialism
[EH, Pai, 2-2, 336; Hankins, ibid. , 337; Martin,Pai, 6-2,167-173].
418. Arabia Petra: Arabia Petraea, an ancient cliff city, "a rose-red city half as old as time" [Hankins, Pai, 2-2, 337]; but T. E. Lawrence described the stones there as "red and black and grey with streaks of green and blue. " Lowell Thomas wrote of them as "great rainbows of stone flashing out white, vermilion, saffron, orange, pink, and crimson. " Lawrence was a photog- rapher and probably had his own pictures of Petra.
419. LL. G. : Lloyd George, English prime minister at WWI peace conference at Ver- sailles.
420. frogbassador: Georges Clemenceau, chairman o f V ersailles peace conference. In JIM Pound wrote :"1 saw Arabian Law- rence in London one evening after he had been with Lloyd George and, I think, Clemenceau or at any rate one of the other big pots of the congeries. He wouldn't talk about Arabia, and quite naturally he wouldn't talk about what happened in the afternoon" [p. 33]. Fang writes: "From January to October 1919 T. E. Lawrence was at the Peace Conference with the Arab delegation; he was disgusted with the 'power politics played by Clemenceau and Lloyd George. " And Fang quotes Vyvyan Richards, Portrait of T. E. Lawrence, p. 176: "At Versailles, though, however sympathetically Lloyd George understood Lawrence's concern for Feisal, and however much he would have liked to fulfill the promises made to the Arabs, the French proved immovable. So they got Damascus in the end, and with it endless trouble and expense" [II, 181].
421. Talk modern art: T. E. Lawrence was reluctant to talk of his personal experiences,
397. "Spiritus spirit,' /come. "
veni"/adveni: L,
"'come
398. schema: L, "figure, form. "
399. Arry: Aristotle, who in Nicomachean Ethics, 1, 3, 5-7 (1095a), says political science is not for the young because "they have not experience of life and conduct . . . and they are led by their feelings" [cf. 354 above ] .
400. stagiri! e: Aristotle.
A native
o f
Stagira, here
401. Apeliota: The East Wind.
402. Time . . . evil: [30/147].
George L. , T. E. Lawrence; Will Lawrence invited Pound to SI. John's College to speak on poetry. Pound read a paper on Cava1can~i at Oxford in February 1913 and while there seems to have witnessed Kettlewell telling W. L. , who had run his bicycle into the Prince of Wales, that it was a pity he hadn't run into him
hard enough to kill him.
414. W. L. : William George Lawrence.
415. Edvardus: Future King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor. Here a student at Oxford.
416. a. d. 1910: It would have to be 1913 to have all the people of the passage present in the circumstances indicated.
417. Berlin to Bagdad : [or Baghdad]. A .
413. W. Lawrence:
William brother of
1889-1915,
younger
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which is what people wanted to hear about.
He preferred to talk about the arts [cf. T. E. Lawrence and His Friends, passim, which mentions often his passion to set up a printing press] .
422. T. L. : T. E. Lawrence. Will Lawrence probably showed Pound some of his brother's photographs of the rock temples in Arabia Petra which were probably taken during his second stay at Carchemish (spring 1912- spring 1914). During that time T. E. L. had an unpleasant encounter with Germans constructing the Constantinople-Bagdad line of the 3B (Berlin-Belgrade-Bagdad) railway.
423_ Snow: Thomas Collins S. , M. A. Oxford 1874, lecturer in English language and literature at Jesus College in 1913. He was among those who took part in the discussion after Pound had read his paper on Caval- canti, in which he probably asserted that in some ways Cavalcanti could compare with Sappho_
424. 1JCd/Je~TMT-T-TTT-Cx. { flOL: H, cpCt. llJ? TmI1Ol: "He seems to me. " Sappho's poem "To Anactoria", Lyra Graeca I, fr. 2, p. 186 [OBGV, no. 141], begins with the words: </JIXivEr"" ) l O t <f}Vt<: iao<: ( " A very god he seems to me"). The very aged Snow cited this line as evidence that Sappho was better than Cava1canti.
425. l'aer tremare: I, "the air to tremble"; part of 2d line of Cava1canti's sonnet 7 [T, 38].
426_ Magdalen: A college of Oxford Uni- versity.
427. "The Hound of Heaven": Poem by Francis Thompson, 1859-1907, which appeared in his Poems (1893).
428. burn . nd freeze: Traditional hallmark of Sappho because of an Ambrose Philips translation (1711) of her "Hymn to Aphro- dite" ["To Anactoria" in 424 above], in which he interpolated two lines: "Though now to freeze, he soon shall burn / And be thy victim in his turn. "
429. Siki: "Battling" Siki, a light- heavyweight boxing champion of the 1920"
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a Senegalese of brutish strength. But Pound remembered Siki for his deftness not his brutality [HK].
430_ Burr: Prob. prisoner at DTC.
431. Corporal Casey: Member of cadre at DTC.
432. Ie bonhomme Staline: F, "simple Stalin. "
433. Koba: R, "the bear. " Nickname of Stalin as a boy in Georgia [52: II].
434_ Rhys: Ernest R. , 1859-1946. One of the few English editors Pound knew from his earliest years in England and could praise.
435. "A'hv joost. . . . . . . . Tommy Luff": Prob. a comic anecdote Pound heard Rhys tell. The carefully counted dots prob. replace "buggered. "
436_ Clio: The muse of history.
437. Terpsichore: The muse of the dance.
438. Granville: Prob. Harley Granville- Barker, 1877-1946, English actor, manager, and playwright.
439. three ladies: Perhaps the "Tre donne Intorno" [78:133], or the three Graces, or both.
440. eaao/. 1? vowL: H (aspirate euao/J. ? vmm), "for generations to come" [Elpenor's line: 1:12;Od. XI,76].
441. aram vult nemus: L, "the grove needs an altar" [first statement of recurrent theme: 78:91; 79:126; 90/607].
442. Madame Lucrezia: Lucrezia Borgia [30:8,11].
443. Cesena: Town in Fadi Province, Emilia, Italy; controlled by the Malatestas from 1385 to 1465. Site of the Biblioteca Malatestiana, where Pound deposited a copy of A Draft o f XVI. Cantos in 1926.
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445_ Torquato where art thou? : Manlio Torquato Dazzi, in 1926 director of the Malatestiana. "There will be a public copy of the XVI in the Malatestiana at Cesena, if Dazzi consents to house it for me" [L, 190].
446. Tevere: I, "Tiber. " Evokes assassina- tion of Duke of Gandia at 5/18 ("Click of hooves on the cobbles") [5 :32,46].
447. la Stuarda: I, "the Stuart. " Mary Queen of Scots [80:423].
448. Mead: George Robert Stow M. , 1863- 1933, editor of a quarterly review called The Quest (London 1909-1930), which was devoted to occult and/or mystic subjects such as reincarnation. Pound wrote about him as having a sense of humor and gave lines from Mead to illustrate: "'1 know so many people who were Mary Queen of Scots. And when I consider what wonderful people they used to be in their earlier incarnations, I ask WHAT they can have been at in the interim to have arrived where
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pours down" [HK, Pai, I-I, 83; 4:20; 85 :214; cf. 88 above].
456. formato locho: I, "in a prepared place" [LE, 166, from "Donna mi prega"; 36/178].
457. Arachne: The girl who challenged Athena to a weaving contest; because the girl dared to contest the gods, Athena changed her into a spider so she could weave forever; hence, "a spider. "
458. mi porta fortuna: I, "brings me good luck. "
459. EIKONEl:: H, "pictures, images. " 460. Trastevere: [cf. 24 above]. Pound
wrote in A Visiting Card: "And the mosaics in Santa Maria in Trastevere recall a wisdom lost by scholasticism. . . . In his After Strange Gods Eliot loses all the threads of Arachne" [SP,320].
461. black Jim: A servant, during the 1890s, at the Hotel "Easton," the boarding- house at 24 E. 47th St. , New York, run by the Weston branch of Pound's family, where he spent time as a youth ["Indiscre-
tions," PD, 42-50].
462.
