Table of Contents

Forward Chapter One: The Washington Cantos: Anagogy, Metapolitics and the Warren Court The Washington Cantos: Section: Rock-Drill de los Cantares and Thrones Metapolitics and Politics “Four Steps to the Bughouse” The Warren Court Chapter Two: Obstacles to Understanding the Washington Cantos Aesopian Language and Its Problems Pound’s Reading and the Poverty of Philology Trobar Clus Pound’s “Late Style” The “Cleaners Manifesto” Chapter Three: Two States’ Rights Fables: John Randolph of Roanoke and Canto 103 John Randolph Canto 103 Chapter Four : The Aryanist Vortex: Pound’s Metapolitics and White Supremacy Pound’s Taxonomy of Human Types “Freedom Now or Never” Chapter Five: Raising Cain: The Aryan Origins of Civilization “Alfalfa Bill” Murray’s Adam & Cain Waddell, Egypt and the Aryan Makers of Civilization Pound’s ‘Egyptian Problem’ Chapter Six: Sheri Martinelli and the Paradise of Venus Ezra Pound: “a great stud…” Trobar Clus Chapter Seven: Sheri Martinelli: Right Wing Muse Chapter Eight: Apollonius of Tyana Chapter Nine: Pound and Sovereignty: Canto 97, “nummolary theory” and the Sacred Ratios. “REAL Ideology” Chapter Ten: Pound’s Agrarian Bent: Physiocracy Against Degradation Chapter Eleven: The Coke Cantos as an Argument for the Defense The Connecticut Charter Pound and Catherine Drinker Bowen Four Acres Chapter Twelve: Pound at Colonus: The Poet as Oedipus Afterword Appendix A: A Primer of Poundian Economics Appendix B: “Homage to Grandpa” by Sheri Martinelli Bibliography Index

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Drawing on archival material and close readings, this book explores how Ezra Pound's adoption of far right political ideas manifested itself in his later poetry.

About the Author

Alec Marsh is Professor of English at Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of John Kasper and Ezra Pound (Bloomsbury, 2015), and Money & Modernity: Pound, Williams and the Spirit of Jefferson (1998).