Author Archives: Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Sestina: Altaforte

382 words

LOQUITUR: En Bertrans de Born.
Dante Alighieri put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer up of strife.
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Published: October 31, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Bertran de Born, Ezra Pound, North American New Right, poems, reprints, Richard the Lionhearted, troubadors | Comments closed

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Gold & Work

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound by Wyndham Lewis

7,181 words

In memory of AURELIO BAISI

Translated by John Drummond

Editor’s Note:

The following text is surely the most compelling and clear of Ezra Pound’s economic writings. I want to thank Kerry Bolton for making a copy available for scanning. “Gombeen man” is Irish slang for a money-lender but it also refers to unethical businessmen in general. Read more …

Published: November 4, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged alternative currencies, articles, banking, C. H. Douglas, economics, Ezra Pound, fascism, money, North American New Right, reprints, Silvio Gesell, Social Credit, the gold standard, Third Way economics | Comments closed

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Jefferson &/or Mussolini, Introductions

Ezra Pound

2,483 words

April 1935, anno XIII, finally a foreword

The body of this ms. was written and left my hands in February 1933. 40 publishers have refused it. No typescript of mine has been read by so many people or brought me a more interesting correspondence. It is here printed verbatim, unaltered. I had not seen the ms. from the time it left Rapallo till it returned here with the galley proof. It is printed as record of what I saw in February 1933. The September preface (1933) indicated a flutter of hope, that has grown steadily more fluttery and less hopeful. Read more …

Published: November 4, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged banking, Benito Mussolini, book excerpts, classical republicanism, Ezra Pound, fascism, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, H. L. Mencken, Italy, Jefferson and/or Mussolini, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Social Credit, Thomas Jefferson | Comments closed

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Jefferson &/or Mussolini, Part 5

Ezra Pound

4,706 words

Part 5 of 5

XXVII
Paideuma

Jefferson &/or Mussolini, Part 4

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound painted by Wyndham Lewis

4,543 words

Part 4 of 5

XXIII
Resistance

JEFFERSON writing to Adams (or vice versa) noted that before their time hardly anyone had bothered to think about political organization or the organization of government. Read more …

Published: October 31, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged academia, Andrew Jackson, banking, Benito Mussolini, book excerpts, classical republicanism, Ezra Pound, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Italy, Jefferson and/or Mussolini, Martin Van Buren, North American New Right, populism, reprints, slavery, Social Credit, Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson | Comments closed

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Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Part 1

Ezra Pound

760 words

Editor’s Note:

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) is a long, quasi-autobiographical poem consisting of 18 parts. The first part is reprinted below with some annotations. Written in the aftermath of the First World War, it is one of Pound’s most accessible and compelling creations, evoking the anguish of the war and the disillusionment that followed– Read more …

Published: October 30, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Ezra Pound, fascism, National Socialism, North American New Right, poems, reprints, World War I | Comments closed

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Jefferson &/or Mussolini, Part 3

Ezra Pound

5,944 words

Part 3 of 5

XIV
Why Italy?

Jefferson &/or Mussolini, Part 2

Ezra Pound

5,927 words

Part 2 of 5

VII

TAKING it by and large the Russian revolution seems to me fairly simple by comparison. If I am wrong it is probably because I haven’t been ten years in Russia.

At any rate, as I see it, the Russian revolution is the end of the Marxian cycle, Read more …

Published: October 29, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged banking, Benito Mussolini, book excerpts, censorship, classical republicanism, Ezra Pound, fascism, Italy, Jefferson and/or Mussolini, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Social Credit, Thomas Jefferson | Comments closed

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Jefferson &/or Mussolini, Part 1

Ezra Pound

5,927 words

Part 1 of 5

Editor’s Note:

The end of October is one of my favorite times of the year, and not just because Halloween falls on the 31st. On the 30th, we celebrate the birthday of Ezra Pound, poet and prophet of a just social and economic system, and on November 1st, we commemorate his death. Read more …