ABSTRACT

As one reads these thirteen new Cantos of Ezra Pound's long poem and then re-reads the ninety-five which have preceded it, one's first strong impression is that little change or genuine development of theme and attitude have occurred throughout the entire work. Through the years Pound has remembered a great deal, but he has learned nothing— nothing that could be called a new insight into the attitudes with which he began to write. Thus Canto 100 begins with Has packed the Supreme Court so they declare anything he does constitutional. —Senator Wheeler, 1936