] Later he started a
publishing
venture in London which became "The Wisdom of the East" series.
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II
T1ElnNnI: H, Tithonus.
In the myth
T. was given immortality without freedom from process of aging. He pleaded for death but could not die. He was loved by the goddess Eos, who turned him into a grass? hopper, the most musical of insects, so that she might hear her lover's voice sounding forever in her ears.
230. this stone: [cf. 213 above].
231. staria . . . scosse: I, "it would rest without further tossing. " Guido da Monte? feltro says these words [Int. XXVII, 63] about respite from the tossing flames that encase him in the hell of evil counsellors [cf. epigraph to Eliot's "Prufrock"; MSB note: Dante, and the Possum: if I thought I was talking to anyone returning to the world, flame would not keep speaking] .
232. eucalyptus: On the way to Lavagna, Pound picked up a eucalpytus pip and kept it with him thereafter [M de R; 80:9].
233. mare Tirreno: I, "the Tyrrhenian Sea. "
234. MaImaison: A chateau near Paris; residence (1809-1814) of the Empress Josephine, and later of Maria Christina of Spain and o f the Empress Eugenie.
235. Sirdar: [cf. 175 above].
236. Armenonville: Pavillon d'Armenon- ville, fashionable restaurant in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris: "between the Porte Maillot and the Jardin d'Acclimatation" [Fang, II, 309].
237. Ventadour: Town near Egletons, SW o f Ussel. A ruined castle o f a famous ducal family is located there [cf. 72, 73 above].
238. Vssel: [cf. 72 above].
239. la bella Torre: I, "the beautiful tower. " The Leaning Tower of Pisa.
240. Vgolino: Vgolino della Gheradesca, 11212-1289, Vgolino da Pisa. He conspired to seize power in Pisa but was imprisoned and his wealth confiscated (1276). After other treasons against Pisa, he, his two sons, and two grandsons were imprisoned in the tower of Gualandi (since called Torre Della Fame) and starved to death [Int. XXXIII]. Dante [Int. XXXII] pictures V. eating his son's head.
241. H. : Adolf Hitler. 242. M. : Benito Mussolini.
199. Farben works:
The
(Interessensgemeinscha/t
218. in coitu . . .
shines. " The "lumen," or divine light, is expressed sexually [36:13].
: L, "in
coition the
light
219. Manet: Edouard M. ,
French impressionist painter. He painted a picture of the bar at the Folies-Bergere, 32, rue Richter.
220. La Cigale: A dance hall and restaurant near Place Pigalle, Montmartre, at 120, boulevard de Rochechouart.
221. Les Folies: F, "The Folies" (Bergere).
222. she did her hair . . . : Olga Rudge, who for a time dyed her hair red in honor of Vivaldi, who was known in his time as the Red Priest because of his flaming hair.
223. Drecol or Lanvin: Famous Parisian dress designers.
224. Aeneas: When he first met his mother (Aphrodite) in The Aeneid, he knew her at once.
225. la France . . . : F, "Nineteenth-century France. "
226. Degas: Edgar D. , 1834-1917, French impressionist painter who significantly in? fluenced followers such as Picasso.
227. Guys:
newspaper illustrator who did drawings for the London News during the Crimean War. He settled in Paris (ca. 1885) and sketched the life and manners of the Second Empire during the period when impression. ism, as well as all the arts, flourished.
228. Vanderpyl: Fritz-Rene V. , 1876- Dutch writer Pound knew during his Paris years [7 :22] .
Constantin G. ,
1802-1892,
229. Vlaminck:
French painter, printmaker, and writer.
Maurice V. ,
1876-1905,
1832-1883,
; a
? ? 376
74/436-437
74/437-438
377
243. Frobenius: Leo F. [38:45; cf. 44 above ] .
244. der Geheimrat: G, "the privy coun? cillor. "
245. der . . . hat: G, "the [white] man who in Baluba made the thunder storm" [38 :41].
246. Monsieur Jean: J. Cocteau, 1891? 1963, French poet, playwright, and man of letters, whose creative powers Pound regarded most highly during the 20s and 30s: "Yet Greek drama exists. Cocteau by sheer genius has resurrected it" [GK, 93]; "Gaudier had and Cocteau has genius" [GK,105].
247. Possum: Pound endowed T. S. Eliot with this nickname because, like the possum, he was good at playing dead.
. . . Ius:
249. magna NUX animae: L, "great nut of the soul. " Some scholars believe this phrase should really be "great night of the soul," to evoke mystics who talk about "the dark night of the soul" [Shuldiner, Pai, 4-1,73]. But Pound probably means what he says, "nut," to evoke the Pythagorean theme of "the body is in the soul" [CFT, Pai, 2-3, 451] and establish the motif that will climax as "the great acorn of light" [116:8].
250. Barabbas: Thief released from prison in place of Christ who was then crucified with two other thieves [cf. 62 above].
251. Mr. Edwards: [cf. 202 above]. 252. Hudson: [cf. 189 above].
253. comes miseriae: L, "companion of misery. "
254. Comites: L, "Companions. " 255. Kernes: Trainee at DTC.
256. Green: Trainee at DTC who was in a "security cage" near Pound [77: 158] .
257. Tom Wilson: Black trainee at DTC [77:91].
258. Whiteside: The black turnkey at DTC, used by Provost Section to handle the solitary cells and "security cages. "
259. bag o'Dukes: Dukes Mixture, a brand of roll-your-own tobacco used at the DTC
[Williams, Poetry, 1949,218].
260. ac ego in harum: L, "and I too in the
pig-sty" [39:24]. 261. Circe: [1:1].
262. ivi . . . animae: L, <II went into the pig-sty and saw soul-corpses" [39:24].
263. Carrol (of Carrolton): Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 1737-1832, Revolutionary leader [69:66]. A number of the trainees, particularly blacks from the south, had names of former presidents and even of famous men who did not get as far, such as Carroll.
264. Crawford: Carrol C. , inmate at DTC.
265. ElEAArEIN: H, (infinitive of ElfA'YW): "to enchant, bewitch," which is what Circe did; also, in Homer, to cheat, cozen.
266. nee benecomata: L, "nor fair-tressed" [ef. Andreas Divus, trans. , ad. XI].
267. Kirke: H, "Circe. "
268. K(tKQ: ? ? . 'E8WKEV: "she had given them dreadful drugs" [39:7]. Circe bewitched the "mountain wolves and lions" with her potions.
269. veleno: I, "poison. "
270. Predappio: Town in NE Italy where Mussolini was born, the son of a blacksmith. The several lines ending here concern usury as a disease that infects the whole social fabric. Said Pound: "When a given hormone defects, it will defect throughout the whole system" [GK,60].
271. Upward . . . bank: [cf. 275 below]. In a poem entitled "The Discarded Imagist" [The Egotist, June 1, 1915; rpt. Poetry,
Vol. 6, no. 6, 1915], Upward wrote: "I withstood the savages of the Niger with a revolver: / I withstood the savages of the Thames with a printingpress" [EP, GE, 118]. In 1901 as British Resident in Nigeria h e s t o o d o n " t h e blood~stained s t o n e o f Somarika, with a revolver in his hand, and three human skulls at his feet" and faced "an ogre, whose boast it is that he never had to strike more than one blow to cut off a human head. " [Some Personalities, London, 1912.
] Later he started a publishing venture in London which became "The Wisdom of the East" series.
278. Babylon: Prob. the owner of Babylon, suggesting the confusion o f voices from which the work of Matteo and Pisanello rescued the 15th century.
279. nox animae magna: L, "great night of the soul" [cf. "Dark Night of the Soul," St. John of the Cross; cf. variant "nux" in 249 above ] .
280. Taishan: [cf. 46 above].
281. To study . . . untrumpeted: Pound translates the opening lines of the Analects thus: "1. He said: Study with the seasons winging past, is not this pleasant? 2. To have friends coming in from far quarters, not a delight? 3. Unruffled by men's ingnoring him, also indicative of high breed" [CON, 195].
248. pouvrette
never did I read a letter" [Villon, Testament, "Ballade Pour Prier Nostre Dame"]. Pound was impressed with this Villon ballad early on and discusses it in a chapter entitled, "Montcorbier, alias Villon" [SR, 166-178].
F,
"poor and old
282. filial . . . process:
Analects I, II, 2 thus: "2. The real gentleman goes for the root, when the root is solid the (beneficent) process starts growing, filiality and brotherliness are the root of manhood, increasing with it" [ibid. ].
283. nor . . . alacrity: Analects I, III: "He said: Elaborate phrasing about correct appearances seldom means manhood"
272. Sitalkas: The
[~[7&AK<>S] , "Prohibitor of Corn-Growing. "
Upward bought at Corfu an ancient Greek gem that seemed to represent John Barley- corn with a seed basket on his arm and three spikes rising from his cap. Upward seems to have had a seal ring made out of the gem: "a sardonyx or blood-stone, green with red spots. " An impression of the seal is used on the cover of Upward's book The Divine Mystery [Moody,Pai, 4-1, 56-57; 78/479].
273. Niger: River in W Africa.
274. Thomas bank: The Thames River bank.
. . . shot
1863-1926, cultural anthropologist, student
o f primitive religions, world traveler and friend of many people around Pound (1911- 21), including G. R. S. Mead and A. R. Drage. Pound's idea of the Eleusinian mysteries were seen through such books as Upward's The Divine Mystery, 1910 [Knox, Pai, 3-1, 71-83]. Upward committed suicide in 1926.
276. Matteo: M. da Pasti, d. 1468. Vero- nese sculptor and medalist. Made intaglio medallions of Sigismundo Malatesta, Isotra, etc. [264].
277. Pisanello: Antonio Pisano, 11397- 1455, V eronese painter and medalist. Made medals of Sigismundo, his brother Novello, etc. [26 :78].
. . . . . . respect
275.
Upward
himself:
Allen U. ,
harvest: Analects I, V: "He what you do and keep your . . . be friendly to others, employ the people in season. [Prob. meaning public works are not to interfere with agricultural production. ]" Pound's brackets and italics
[ibid. ].
285. E al Triedro . . . la Luna: I, "And at the trihedral corner, Cunizza/and the other woman: 'I am the moon'" [6:34].
286. Cunizza: Cunizza da Romano [6: 34] . Here the image of the compassionate woman.
287. Nv~ animae: H, "night," animae: L, "of the soul. "
288. San Juan . . . ad posteros: L, "St. John. . . . to posterity. " The Spanish mystic Juan de Yepis y Alvarez, 1542-1591, known
Delphian
Apollo
[ibid. ].
284. employ
said: word
Pound renders
,
? ? ? I I,
378
74/438-439
74/439-440
379
as St. John of the Cross. He wrote of "the Dark Night of the Soul" as a stage in the mystic way.
289. Ugolino: [cf. 240 above] .
290. la vieille de Candide: F, "Candide's old
woman" [Voltaire, Candide, XI-XII].
291. Corporal Casey: Soldier in cadre of the
DTC.
303. olivi: I, "olive trees. "
304. Boreas Apeliota libeccio: Seriatim: "North Wind, East Wind, South Wind. "
305. "C'e il babao": [babau]. I, "there's the bugbear. "
306. i1 Pozzetto/al Tigullio: I, "the Little Well/at Tigullio. " The beach on the Bay of Tigullio, near Rapallo, where Pound lived in 1930s.
307. Oedipus: Greek hero who inadver? tently murdered his father and married his mother [Sophocles, Oedipus Rex].
308. nepotes Remi magnanimi: L, "grand? sons (descendants) of the great-souled Remus. "
309. Mr. Bullington: Prob. inmate at DTC.
310. Lady be good: Popular song of the 30s.
use in Japan? " "Hawk's eye," above, and "hawk's wing" in next line prob. recalled the Yeats play.
318. babao: I, "bugbear" [cf. 305 above].
319. no fortune . . . : [1/4].
320. J. Adams: [31: 15] Pound several times refers to the statement Adams often made: "every bank of discount . . . is down- right corruption" [71 :35; 76:113].
321. at 35 . . . 21. 65: Roosevelt's change of the value of gold.
322. Byzantium: Ancient city on the Bosphorus; site of modern Istanbul.
323. Meyer Anselm: Mayer Amschel Roths? child, 1743-1812, usually considered to be the founder of the House of Rothschild.
324. old H. : Henry Morgenthau, Sr. [DG/RO].
325. young H/: Henry Morgenthau, Jr. [DG/RO].
326. Sieff: Israel Moses S. , British mer? chant; reputed anonymous owner of the London tabloid the Daily Mirror during the late 1930s.
327. a rrromance: Idea that money, "high finance," and international money opera- tions were Ha great romance" was current during the 1930s.
328. yidd: [yitt, yit]: Yiddish dialect, "Jew. " G, Jude. A term of approbrium first applied by wealthy German Jews to low? class "ghetto" Jews from central European countries when they began migrating west. Pound associated "the blond bastards" with The Magnificat based on Luke 1. 52: "He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree" [DG/RO].
329. goyim: Yiddish, "gentiles. " A term used by Jews for non-Jews. In context, it can be pejorative or not.
330. versalzen: G, "to oversalt; to spoil. " Derived from Christ's remarks at the end of the Sermon on the Mount [Matthew 5. 13] : "Ye are the salt of the earth. " Pound said
Christ was addressing the Jews (not the gentiles) and refers at them as "oversalted"
[HK].
331. With justice: "Redeem Zion with justice" [cf. 99 above].
T. was given immortality without freedom from process of aging. He pleaded for death but could not die. He was loved by the goddess Eos, who turned him into a grass? hopper, the most musical of insects, so that she might hear her lover's voice sounding forever in her ears.
230. this stone: [cf. 213 above].
231. staria . . . scosse: I, "it would rest without further tossing. " Guido da Monte? feltro says these words [Int. XXVII, 63] about respite from the tossing flames that encase him in the hell of evil counsellors [cf. epigraph to Eliot's "Prufrock"; MSB note: Dante, and the Possum: if I thought I was talking to anyone returning to the world, flame would not keep speaking] .
232. eucalyptus: On the way to Lavagna, Pound picked up a eucalpytus pip and kept it with him thereafter [M de R; 80:9].
233. mare Tirreno: I, "the Tyrrhenian Sea. "
234. MaImaison: A chateau near Paris; residence (1809-1814) of the Empress Josephine, and later of Maria Christina of Spain and o f the Empress Eugenie.
235. Sirdar: [cf. 175 above].
236. Armenonville: Pavillon d'Armenon- ville, fashionable restaurant in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris: "between the Porte Maillot and the Jardin d'Acclimatation" [Fang, II, 309].
237. Ventadour: Town near Egletons, SW o f Ussel. A ruined castle o f a famous ducal family is located there [cf. 72, 73 above].
238. Vssel: [cf. 72 above].
239. la bella Torre: I, "the beautiful tower. " The Leaning Tower of Pisa.
240. Vgolino: Vgolino della Gheradesca, 11212-1289, Vgolino da Pisa. He conspired to seize power in Pisa but was imprisoned and his wealth confiscated (1276). After other treasons against Pisa, he, his two sons, and two grandsons were imprisoned in the tower of Gualandi (since called Torre Della Fame) and starved to death [Int. XXXIII]. Dante [Int. XXXII] pictures V. eating his son's head.
241. H. : Adolf Hitler. 242. M. : Benito Mussolini.
199. Farben works:
The
(Interessensgemeinscha/t
218. in coitu . . .
shines. " The "lumen," or divine light, is expressed sexually [36:13].
: L, "in
coition the
light
219. Manet: Edouard M. ,
French impressionist painter. He painted a picture of the bar at the Folies-Bergere, 32, rue Richter.
220. La Cigale: A dance hall and restaurant near Place Pigalle, Montmartre, at 120, boulevard de Rochechouart.
221. Les Folies: F, "The Folies" (Bergere).
222. she did her hair . . . : Olga Rudge, who for a time dyed her hair red in honor of Vivaldi, who was known in his time as the Red Priest because of his flaming hair.
223. Drecol or Lanvin: Famous Parisian dress designers.
224. Aeneas: When he first met his mother (Aphrodite) in The Aeneid, he knew her at once.
225. la France . . . : F, "Nineteenth-century France. "
226. Degas: Edgar D. , 1834-1917, French impressionist painter who significantly in? fluenced followers such as Picasso.
227. Guys:
newspaper illustrator who did drawings for the London News during the Crimean War. He settled in Paris (ca. 1885) and sketched the life and manners of the Second Empire during the period when impression. ism, as well as all the arts, flourished.
228. Vanderpyl: Fritz-Rene V. , 1876- Dutch writer Pound knew during his Paris years [7 :22] .
Constantin G. ,
1802-1892,
229. Vlaminck:
French painter, printmaker, and writer.
Maurice V. ,
1876-1905,
1832-1883,
; a
? ? 376
74/436-437
74/437-438
377
243. Frobenius: Leo F. [38:45; cf. 44 above ] .
244. der Geheimrat: G, "the privy coun? cillor. "
245. der . . . hat: G, "the [white] man who in Baluba made the thunder storm" [38 :41].
246. Monsieur Jean: J. Cocteau, 1891? 1963, French poet, playwright, and man of letters, whose creative powers Pound regarded most highly during the 20s and 30s: "Yet Greek drama exists. Cocteau by sheer genius has resurrected it" [GK, 93]; "Gaudier had and Cocteau has genius" [GK,105].
247. Possum: Pound endowed T. S. Eliot with this nickname because, like the possum, he was good at playing dead.
. . . Ius:
249. magna NUX animae: L, "great nut of the soul. " Some scholars believe this phrase should really be "great night of the soul," to evoke mystics who talk about "the dark night of the soul" [Shuldiner, Pai, 4-1,73]. But Pound probably means what he says, "nut," to evoke the Pythagorean theme of "the body is in the soul" [CFT, Pai, 2-3, 451] and establish the motif that will climax as "the great acorn of light" [116:8].
250. Barabbas: Thief released from prison in place of Christ who was then crucified with two other thieves [cf. 62 above].
251. Mr. Edwards: [cf. 202 above]. 252. Hudson: [cf. 189 above].
253. comes miseriae: L, "companion of misery. "
254. Comites: L, "Companions. " 255. Kernes: Trainee at DTC.
256. Green: Trainee at DTC who was in a "security cage" near Pound [77: 158] .
257. Tom Wilson: Black trainee at DTC [77:91].
258. Whiteside: The black turnkey at DTC, used by Provost Section to handle the solitary cells and "security cages. "
259. bag o'Dukes: Dukes Mixture, a brand of roll-your-own tobacco used at the DTC
[Williams, Poetry, 1949,218].
260. ac ego in harum: L, "and I too in the
pig-sty" [39:24]. 261. Circe: [1:1].
262. ivi . . . animae: L, <II went into the pig-sty and saw soul-corpses" [39:24].
263. Carrol (of Carrolton): Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 1737-1832, Revolutionary leader [69:66]. A number of the trainees, particularly blacks from the south, had names of former presidents and even of famous men who did not get as far, such as Carroll.
264. Crawford: Carrol C. , inmate at DTC.
265. ElEAArEIN: H, (infinitive of ElfA'YW): "to enchant, bewitch," which is what Circe did; also, in Homer, to cheat, cozen.
266. nee benecomata: L, "nor fair-tressed" [ef. Andreas Divus, trans. , ad. XI].
267. Kirke: H, "Circe. "
268. K(tKQ: ? ? . 'E8WKEV: "she had given them dreadful drugs" [39:7]. Circe bewitched the "mountain wolves and lions" with her potions.
269. veleno: I, "poison. "
270. Predappio: Town in NE Italy where Mussolini was born, the son of a blacksmith. The several lines ending here concern usury as a disease that infects the whole social fabric. Said Pound: "When a given hormone defects, it will defect throughout the whole system" [GK,60].
271. Upward . . . bank: [cf. 275 below]. In a poem entitled "The Discarded Imagist" [The Egotist, June 1, 1915; rpt. Poetry,
Vol. 6, no. 6, 1915], Upward wrote: "I withstood the savages of the Niger with a revolver: / I withstood the savages of the Thames with a printingpress" [EP, GE, 118]. In 1901 as British Resident in Nigeria h e s t o o d o n " t h e blood~stained s t o n e o f Somarika, with a revolver in his hand, and three human skulls at his feet" and faced "an ogre, whose boast it is that he never had to strike more than one blow to cut off a human head. " [Some Personalities, London, 1912.
] Later he started a publishing venture in London which became "The Wisdom of the East" series.
278. Babylon: Prob. the owner of Babylon, suggesting the confusion o f voices from which the work of Matteo and Pisanello rescued the 15th century.
279. nox animae magna: L, "great night of the soul" [cf. "Dark Night of the Soul," St. John of the Cross; cf. variant "nux" in 249 above ] .
280. Taishan: [cf. 46 above].
281. To study . . . untrumpeted: Pound translates the opening lines of the Analects thus: "1. He said: Study with the seasons winging past, is not this pleasant? 2. To have friends coming in from far quarters, not a delight? 3. Unruffled by men's ingnoring him, also indicative of high breed" [CON, 195].
248. pouvrette
never did I read a letter" [Villon, Testament, "Ballade Pour Prier Nostre Dame"]. Pound was impressed with this Villon ballad early on and discusses it in a chapter entitled, "Montcorbier, alias Villon" [SR, 166-178].
F,
"poor and old
282. filial . . . process:
Analects I, II, 2 thus: "2. The real gentleman goes for the root, when the root is solid the (beneficent) process starts growing, filiality and brotherliness are the root of manhood, increasing with it" [ibid. ].
283. nor . . . alacrity: Analects I, III: "He said: Elaborate phrasing about correct appearances seldom means manhood"
272. Sitalkas: The
[~[7&AK<>S] , "Prohibitor of Corn-Growing. "
Upward bought at Corfu an ancient Greek gem that seemed to represent John Barley- corn with a seed basket on his arm and three spikes rising from his cap. Upward seems to have had a seal ring made out of the gem: "a sardonyx or blood-stone, green with red spots. " An impression of the seal is used on the cover of Upward's book The Divine Mystery [Moody,Pai, 4-1, 56-57; 78/479].
273. Niger: River in W Africa.
274. Thomas bank: The Thames River bank.
. . . shot
1863-1926, cultural anthropologist, student
o f primitive religions, world traveler and friend of many people around Pound (1911- 21), including G. R. S. Mead and A. R. Drage. Pound's idea of the Eleusinian mysteries were seen through such books as Upward's The Divine Mystery, 1910 [Knox, Pai, 3-1, 71-83]. Upward committed suicide in 1926.
276. Matteo: M. da Pasti, d. 1468. Vero- nese sculptor and medalist. Made intaglio medallions of Sigismundo Malatesta, Isotra, etc. [264].
277. Pisanello: Antonio Pisano, 11397- 1455, V eronese painter and medalist. Made medals of Sigismundo, his brother Novello, etc. [26 :78].
. . . . . . respect
275.
Upward
himself:
Allen U. ,
harvest: Analects I, V: "He what you do and keep your . . . be friendly to others, employ the people in season. [Prob. meaning public works are not to interfere with agricultural production. ]" Pound's brackets and italics
[ibid. ].
285. E al Triedro . . . la Luna: I, "And at the trihedral corner, Cunizza/and the other woman: 'I am the moon'" [6:34].
286. Cunizza: Cunizza da Romano [6: 34] . Here the image of the compassionate woman.
287. Nv~ animae: H, "night," animae: L, "of the soul. "
288. San Juan . . . ad posteros: L, "St. John. . . . to posterity. " The Spanish mystic Juan de Yepis y Alvarez, 1542-1591, known
Delphian
Apollo
[ibid. ].
284. employ
said: word
Pound renders
,
? ? ? I I,
378
74/438-439
74/439-440
379
as St. John of the Cross. He wrote of "the Dark Night of the Soul" as a stage in the mystic way.
289. Ugolino: [cf. 240 above] .
290. la vieille de Candide: F, "Candide's old
woman" [Voltaire, Candide, XI-XII].
291. Corporal Casey: Soldier in cadre of the
DTC.
303. olivi: I, "olive trees. "
304. Boreas Apeliota libeccio: Seriatim: "North Wind, East Wind, South Wind. "
305. "C'e il babao": [babau]. I, "there's the bugbear. "
306. i1 Pozzetto/al Tigullio: I, "the Little Well/at Tigullio. " The beach on the Bay of Tigullio, near Rapallo, where Pound lived in 1930s.
307. Oedipus: Greek hero who inadver? tently murdered his father and married his mother [Sophocles, Oedipus Rex].
308. nepotes Remi magnanimi: L, "grand? sons (descendants) of the great-souled Remus. "
309. Mr. Bullington: Prob. inmate at DTC.
310. Lady be good: Popular song of the 30s.
use in Japan? " "Hawk's eye," above, and "hawk's wing" in next line prob. recalled the Yeats play.
318. babao: I, "bugbear" [cf. 305 above].
319. no fortune . . . : [1/4].
320. J. Adams: [31: 15] Pound several times refers to the statement Adams often made: "every bank of discount . . . is down- right corruption" [71 :35; 76:113].
321. at 35 . . . 21. 65: Roosevelt's change of the value of gold.
322. Byzantium: Ancient city on the Bosphorus; site of modern Istanbul.
323. Meyer Anselm: Mayer Amschel Roths? child, 1743-1812, usually considered to be the founder of the House of Rothschild.
324. old H. : Henry Morgenthau, Sr. [DG/RO].
325. young H/: Henry Morgenthau, Jr. [DG/RO].
326. Sieff: Israel Moses S. , British mer? chant; reputed anonymous owner of the London tabloid the Daily Mirror during the late 1930s.
327. a rrromance: Idea that money, "high finance," and international money opera- tions were Ha great romance" was current during the 1930s.
328. yidd: [yitt, yit]: Yiddish dialect, "Jew. " G, Jude. A term of approbrium first applied by wealthy German Jews to low? class "ghetto" Jews from central European countries when they began migrating west. Pound associated "the blond bastards" with The Magnificat based on Luke 1. 52: "He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree" [DG/RO].
329. goyim: Yiddish, "gentiles. " A term used by Jews for non-Jews. In context, it can be pejorative or not.
330. versalzen: G, "to oversalt; to spoil. " Derived from Christ's remarks at the end of the Sermon on the Mount [Matthew 5. 13] : "Ye are the salt of the earth. " Pound said
Christ was addressing the Jews (not the gentiles) and refers at them as "oversalted"
[HK].
331. With justice: "Redeem Zion with justice" [cf. 99 above].
