Hesperides:
Daughters
of Atlas and Hes?
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II
.
Goddesses.
2La- 2mun is the Tibe?
tan Lhamo, to which the Na?
khi add the word 3 mi = female" [ibid.
, 39].
S. 2Ndaw 1bpo: NK, "Sacrifice to Earth. " "If we do not perform 2Ndaw 2bpa . . . all that we have accomplished will not be real"
[ibid. , 41].
6. 2Muan. . . :NK. "If2Muan1bpaisnot performed, all that which we accomplished is not real" [ibid. ]
1. 12 Houses . . . sorry: Signs of the Zodiac. The "seeing" and "tasting" lines are a state? ment of "the tale of the tribe" in brief: a reduction like Confucius's putting the 300 odes into "have no twisty thoughts"
[111:9].
2. Pater Helios: And all transpires under the turning constellations and the sun.
3. "Mortal . . . ears": Trans. of Dante [In! VII, 92].
4. 8piwo<;: H, "lament, esp. for the dead. "
S. Mozart: [26:99].
6. Agassiz:'[93:51].
7. Linnaeus: Karl von Linne, 1707? 1778, Swedish botanist who founded the modern binomial method of designating plants and animals. Although he published over 180
books, his name is here because of the great reverence he showed toward all creation, as expressed in his Philosophia Botanica (1751).
8. Marcella: M. Spann, a constant visitor and friend during the late years at St. Eliza? beths and one of the few people who reo turned with Pound to Italy in 1958. She edited, with Pound's encouragement and help, Confucius to Cummings (1964). The garden could be at Brunnenberg, on the lawn at St. Elizabeths, or both.
9. LiChiang: [101:70].
10. Rock's world: [110:54].
11. Pare . . . : [104:54]. A French doctor famous for saying: "Je Ie pansay, Dieu Ie guarist" ("I dress it [the wound], God heals it") [EH, Letzte, 95].
17. Veritas: L, "truth. "
18. come . . . riva: I, "like a boat [or raft] at the shore. " Variation on Dante's "Come tal volta stanno a riva i burchi" ("As boats sometimes lie at the shore") [Inf. XVII, 19].
19. ex profundis: L, "out of the deep. "
20. Anima into aura: L, "soul i:Jto bright- ness," Alchemical tenn whose aim was to bring forth the lumen natural ("natural light") or the quinta essentia ("quintes- sence") in the shape of the philosopher's stone [76:217].
21. Serenitas: L, "brightness. "
22. Edictum prologo: L, "Edict with prologue. "
23. Rothar: [96:27]. This king of the Lom- bards compiled the civil rights of the Lom- bards into a code [cf. 22 above], fought against the Byzantines, and coined his own gold [JW, Later, 180].
From CXII Glossary
7. Agility . . . : "The . . . family's livestock, grain. . . courage, agility, and long life are due to the Juniper" [ibid. , 42].
8. rice . . . : "When rice is transplanted into the fields and it grows so that the ground is invisible, this is due to 1O? 2m~? Pha. . . " [ibid. , 45].
9. Li Chiang: A ceremony called 3Gko 33, or "Grain Throw Out," is held in many places, one of which is described thus: "This is a beautiful spot with many springs which issue from a gravelly flat. ,. ; the springs themselves are called . . . pomegranate water, and are five li [1/3 mile] north of Li-chiang" [ibid, 65n. ].
10. Hsiang Shan: "There are the many springs which issue at the foot of Hsiang Shan, or Elephant Mountain, immediately north of Li-Chiang" [ibid. ].
11. Lung
Wang's: "A
Lung? wang
Miao . . .
or Dragon King Temple, has been built there with a large pond with sacred fish. The springs are called 2 Ngu . . . , and their waters fiow through the city of Li-chiang as the Yii ho . . . or Jade stream" [ibid. ].
12. Ideograms: Yu4 [M7666], "jade"; h02 [M2111], "stream. "
13. Artemisia . . . Arundinaria: The Na-khi 2Bbue and Imun are plants usedmuch in the purification ceremonies [ibid. , 36]. They were conceived to have been born "before all other trees" [ibid. , 144].
14. Winnowed . . . tray: The phrases and pictographs come from a ceremony called the "Pig Fate Offer. " "The second is the picture of a large winnowing tray made of the small bamboo (Arundianaria) called 1mun" [ibid. , 67? 68].
15. neath luna: Prob. a rhyming with moon ceremonies and Artemis themes in earlier cantos and at the end of Canto 110.
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Glossary
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113/786-788
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721
12. Tweddel: Prob. Francis Tweddell, 1863? 7, author of How to Take Carre ofthe Baby; A Mother's Guide and a Manual for Nurses, which went through a number of reprints from 1911 to 1915, as well as a book described in the National Union cata? log as "Collected Papers on Tuberculosis. "
13. Donnelly: Leo G. D. , a medical friend of Pound's who in WWI served as an orthoM pedic surgeon in France. In 1935 he founded the Social Credit party in Detroit; in 1944 he was a presidential candidate for the Greenback party; in the 50s he allowed him? self to be a candidate for the U. S. Congress.
He died in 1958.
14. Pumpelly: [89:128]. In a book entitled Across America and Asia, he tells the stories of people he knew, such as a man named Parkyn: 'Parkyn knew what real adventure was . . . one of his stories recurs to me. Par- kyn stayed one night at a wayside house in the 'bush. ' He was eating when a man . en- tered and handed the cook something wrapped in paper, telling him to cook it . . . When the man had emptied his dish, he leaned back and said: 'There! I told the damned---I'd eat his damned liver, and
I've done it. ", [Vol. I, 165].
15. Gobi: A 500,000 sq. ? mi. desert in N China and Mongolia into which Pumpelly made explorations.
16. 17 Maggio: I, "17 May. " This date, and the following "19th May '59," identify events in Pound's private life.
17. H. D. : Hilda Doolittle, 1886? 1961, early love and lifelong friend of Pound's. She used the word "Serenitas" [111:20] about a translation from Sappho by her husband,
21. Portofino: Italian harbor town near Rapallo.
22.
Hesperides: Daughters of Atlas and Hes? peris who guarded the golden apples of a tree that the goddess Gea let sprout from her lap.
23. old countess: Perhaps the whoring coun? tess of Vienna [35/173].
24. Stef: Stephanie Y ankowska, a beautiful Polish girl Pound knew in Venice in 1908. When she read in the late 40s that a poet named Pound was locked up in St. Eliza? beths, she wanted to know if it was the young man she had known. Finding it was, she began a long campaign to get him re- leased and began a correspondence with EP which went on intensely during his St. Eliza- beths years. As a wealthy Polish expatriate, she knew almost everyone in the diplomatic corps in the capitals of Western Europe. It was through her intercession with the sister of Dag Hammarskjold that he cited lines
from Pound in the General Assembly of the United Nations; and it was her intercession with Mrs. John Foster Dulles in 1957 that helped with the decision to release Pound in 1958 [data from Jerzy Niemojowski friend of the Yankowska family].
25. Sir Ian: Prob. General Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton [104:37], staff officer in the British Army. Pound repeated the story Stephanie told him of their escape during the Communist takeover of Poland.
26. Petain: [79:18]. The lines refer to the Poles marching into the Ukraine in 1920. Petain warned the Poles against this action as a dangerous challenge to the Soviet Union [EH, Letzte, 95].
27. Kalenda maja: "The feast of Venus Gen- etrix, which survives as Mayday [celebra- tion]" [SR, 18]; also, "a famous Estampida of Raimbaut de Vacqueiras (1180. 1207]: Kalenda maia / Ni flor de faira / Ni cant d'auze]']" [EH, Letzte, 90]. Wilhelm calls the Raimbaut work "a rousing South French dance song (the music survives) . . . ; it has much of the joy and verve that Pound associ?
ates with the pagan roots of Provengal song and the beautiful landscapes in Languedoc" OW, Later, 188].
28. Li Sao: C, "Farewell to Sorrow," an elegy by the poet Ch'u Yuan (c. 338-288 B. C. ).
he resorts to this one. If he had lived to know of the extraordinary genetic coding of DNA, he would have been even more over- whelmed by the sense of design and the depth of the mystery of life in process.
30. grass versus . . . : A friend of mine,
when asked what his brother was doing, said J he was paving New Jersey. At the present it rate, the entire nation may be paved more
hibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. " Pound conceived this article as justifying a major tenet of Social Credit: "local control of local purchasing power. "
39. As to sin . . . : Pound
about the time of Pope Innocent III and therafter, the church, taking cues from Au? gustine and a few others, developed and ac- cented the whole horror of sin, especially the so? called sins of the flesh, and the absur? dity of hell? fire as a punishment, in order to dominate the minds of the people. Before that, in Provence and Italy, religious activity accented celebration and rejoicing, dancing and singing [114:28].
40. malvagita: I, "wickedness, nastiness. "
41. Limone: Town on Lake Garda.
42. (scala altrui): I, "the stairs of another. " Cacciaguida says to Dante: "You will prove how salt is the taste of another's bread, how hard the way up and down the stairs of another man" [Par. XVII, 58? 60] .
Richard Era, 57].
Aldington
("Atthis") [HK,
II Giusto Prezzo Medioevak' Studio Econo? "~ mica Politica [The just price in the Middle Ages: Studies in political economy], pub. in
1913 [EH, Letzte, 83]. 35. Giustizia: I, "justice. "
36. Mountain . . . seeping: Return to Na? khi landscape [JP,Agenda, 9? 2 & 3, 62].
37. kindofignorance". . . :[101/725].
38. Article X: Of the U. S. Constitution reads: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor pro?
44. Daphne: [2:26].
45. Syrian onyx: A vessel that contained embalming unguents. In Homage to P. Pound wrote: "Nor will you be weary of calling my name, nor too weary / To place the last kiss on my lips / When the Syrian onyx is broken" [P,219].
46. Ixion: The overthrown sun-god who is bound to an eternally turning, fiery sun wheel in Tartarus [80: 168].
18. Dieudonne's: [74: 178].
19. long flank Sappho poem.
20. garofani: I, "clovetrees. "
London
restaurant
Reflections on the
"carnations"
or
Ii 29. intelligent
in any language to cover what Pound means,
~
quickly than one might think.
31. Schwundgeld: G, technical term in Ge? sen's theory of money: "inflationary de- crease in money value. " Compared here with the Continental currency used to finance the American Revolution. As early as that, the currency devised proved that money could
". ' serve as both a standard and a medium of exchange. The desperate fact in Pound's '~ mind was that neither economists nor politi-
cians could learn this simple fact. 32. Parsley . . . : [97:292].
: A central
33. body
34. (Sac
. . . . . .
soul:, [98:20]. guisto): Sac. L. P.
Carioli wrote
. . .
: Since
there is no word
. . .
thesis of the
43. God's eye
poem. Divinity, the light descending, works through the intelligence of man. God acting in the world is revealed at one pole by the intelligence in the cherry stone and, at the other pole, through the mind of man and man's perception of beauty (TO WADV); his creative powers and his sense of humor (hila- ritas); his powers of kindness, mercy, and justice; and his impulse to rejoice through dance and song.
believed that
? 722
114/791-792
114/792-793, 115/794, 116/795
723
1. Pas . . . Freron: P, "Not even FIeron, I hate no one, not even Freron. "
2, Froron: Eli F" 1718-1776, fought for throne and altar against the Philosophes and the Encyclopedists. His strongest attacks were aimed at Voltaire.
3. Voltaire: [65:108]. In Le Pauvre Diable [The poor devil] V. said: "The other day, at the bottom of a dale / A serpent bit Jean Froron / What do you think happened? / It was the serpent who died" [EH, Letzte, 87].
4. Mr. Law: [100:24].
5. Tom Pick: Timothy Pickering [62:156; 63:7].
6. respect a good book . . . : Major tenet in Pound's ideas about literary criticism
[ABCR,28-35].
7. 0 di . . . natura: L, "0 of the diversity of nature. " From Dialog Y, "Concerning Infini~ ty," in The Dialogs ofBruno [Torino, 1932, p. 64]. The original has "e" ("and") instead of "0. " The lines concern the multiplicity of heavenly bodies [JE, Pai, 3-3,414-415].
8. (Giordano Bruno): Italian philosopher, 1548-1600, who defied the religious think? ing of his time and was arrested late in the Inquisition and burned at the stake by the Church of Rome. His central thesis, that deity is an infinite principle manifest in man and in all creation in a hierarchy of values, rhymes with Pound's own beliefs.
9. belly-ache: Bruno reasoned in a way dif- ferent from Plotinus, who had stomach trouble [99/700].
10. Ari: Aristotle was employed by Philip of Macedon to educate his son, who was to become Alexander the Great. During those years and after, Aristotle became a marine biologist.
II. bianco c(h)ade: I, "white falls. " From
Cavalcanti's Canzone d'amore V, 8 [36:13; MIN, 394-395].
12. Oneida: Pound's Uncle Loomis, whom he associates on the one hand with the Onei- da Colony Gealousy) and on the other with horse theft (property). The Oneida Colony (1847-1879) was founded by John Hum- phrey Noyes (1811-1886) on a collectivist basis. The commune practiced "complex marriage," a system in which all members were married to each other [Noyes, Social- ism, passim; EH,Pai, 3-3, 413-414].
13. Macleod: Joseph Gordon M. , Scottish poet who in 1936 called Pound's attention to the difference between property and pos- session [L, 279].
14. (Sandro's, Firenze): "Botticelli's, Flor- ence" [20:19].
15. Mu4. 5: [M4593]:"wood. "
16. Fu Hi: Fu Hsi [53:3]. His emblem is the T-square. In the table of succession (or evolution), he belongs to the change cycle "wood," which corresponds to the "power of imagination and growth" [EH, Letzte, 88]. The "metal" in the table is associated with Shao-hao, Pound's "Chan" [53:35], hence the line [53/264] "Chan by metal. "
17. "Harve: A relative of Pound's. Pound's grandmother (the Loomis side of Oneida County) provoked this memory: "I can re- member no phrase of hers save that once in a discussion of conduct, she said 'Harve was like that. ' The statement ended the matter"
[PD,II-12;37].
S. 2Ndaw 1bpo: NK, "Sacrifice to Earth. " "If we do not perform 2Ndaw 2bpa . . . all that we have accomplished will not be real"
[ibid. , 41].
6. 2Muan. . . :NK. "If2Muan1bpaisnot performed, all that which we accomplished is not real" [ibid. ]
1. 12 Houses . . . sorry: Signs of the Zodiac. The "seeing" and "tasting" lines are a state? ment of "the tale of the tribe" in brief: a reduction like Confucius's putting the 300 odes into "have no twisty thoughts"
[111:9].
2. Pater Helios: And all transpires under the turning constellations and the sun.
3. "Mortal . . . ears": Trans. of Dante [In! VII, 92].
4. 8piwo<;: H, "lament, esp. for the dead. "
S. Mozart: [26:99].
6. Agassiz:'[93:51].
7. Linnaeus: Karl von Linne, 1707? 1778, Swedish botanist who founded the modern binomial method of designating plants and animals. Although he published over 180
books, his name is here because of the great reverence he showed toward all creation, as expressed in his Philosophia Botanica (1751).
8. Marcella: M. Spann, a constant visitor and friend during the late years at St. Eliza? beths and one of the few people who reo turned with Pound to Italy in 1958. She edited, with Pound's encouragement and help, Confucius to Cummings (1964). The garden could be at Brunnenberg, on the lawn at St. Elizabeths, or both.
9. LiChiang: [101:70].
10. Rock's world: [110:54].
11. Pare . . . : [104:54]. A French doctor famous for saying: "Je Ie pansay, Dieu Ie guarist" ("I dress it [the wound], God heals it") [EH, Letzte, 95].
17. Veritas: L, "truth. "
18. come . . . riva: I, "like a boat [or raft] at the shore. " Variation on Dante's "Come tal volta stanno a riva i burchi" ("As boats sometimes lie at the shore") [Inf. XVII, 19].
19. ex profundis: L, "out of the deep. "
20. Anima into aura: L, "soul i:Jto bright- ness," Alchemical tenn whose aim was to bring forth the lumen natural ("natural light") or the quinta essentia ("quintes- sence") in the shape of the philosopher's stone [76:217].
21. Serenitas: L, "brightness. "
22. Edictum prologo: L, "Edict with prologue. "
23. Rothar: [96:27]. This king of the Lom- bards compiled the civil rights of the Lom- bards into a code [cf. 22 above], fought against the Byzantines, and coined his own gold [JW, Later, 180].
From CXII Glossary
7. Agility . . . : "The . . . family's livestock, grain. . . courage, agility, and long life are due to the Juniper" [ibid. , 42].
8. rice . . . : "When rice is transplanted into the fields and it grows so that the ground is invisible, this is due to 1O? 2m~? Pha. . . " [ibid. , 45].
9. Li Chiang: A ceremony called 3Gko 33, or "Grain Throw Out," is held in many places, one of which is described thus: "This is a beautiful spot with many springs which issue from a gravelly flat. ,. ; the springs themselves are called . . . pomegranate water, and are five li [1/3 mile] north of Li-chiang" [ibid, 65n. ].
10. Hsiang Shan: "There are the many springs which issue at the foot of Hsiang Shan, or Elephant Mountain, immediately north of Li-Chiang" [ibid. ].
11. Lung
Wang's: "A
Lung? wang
Miao . . .
or Dragon King Temple, has been built there with a large pond with sacred fish. The springs are called 2 Ngu . . . , and their waters fiow through the city of Li-chiang as the Yii ho . . . or Jade stream" [ibid. ].
12. Ideograms: Yu4 [M7666], "jade"; h02 [M2111], "stream. "
13. Artemisia . . . Arundinaria: The Na-khi 2Bbue and Imun are plants usedmuch in the purification ceremonies [ibid. , 36]. They were conceived to have been born "before all other trees" [ibid. , 144].
14. Winnowed . . . tray: The phrases and pictographs come from a ceremony called the "Pig Fate Offer. " "The second is the picture of a large winnowing tray made of the small bamboo (Arundianaria) called 1mun" [ibid. , 67? 68].
15. neath luna: Prob. a rhyming with moon ceremonies and Artemis themes in earlier cantos and at the end of Canto 110.
CXIII
Glossary
? 720
113/786-788
113/788-790
721
12. Tweddel: Prob. Francis Tweddell, 1863? 7, author of How to Take Carre ofthe Baby; A Mother's Guide and a Manual for Nurses, which went through a number of reprints from 1911 to 1915, as well as a book described in the National Union cata? log as "Collected Papers on Tuberculosis. "
13. Donnelly: Leo G. D. , a medical friend of Pound's who in WWI served as an orthoM pedic surgeon in France. In 1935 he founded the Social Credit party in Detroit; in 1944 he was a presidential candidate for the Greenback party; in the 50s he allowed him? self to be a candidate for the U. S. Congress.
He died in 1958.
14. Pumpelly: [89:128]. In a book entitled Across America and Asia, he tells the stories of people he knew, such as a man named Parkyn: 'Parkyn knew what real adventure was . . . one of his stories recurs to me. Par- kyn stayed one night at a wayside house in the 'bush. ' He was eating when a man . en- tered and handed the cook something wrapped in paper, telling him to cook it . . . When the man had emptied his dish, he leaned back and said: 'There! I told the damned---I'd eat his damned liver, and
I've done it. ", [Vol. I, 165].
15. Gobi: A 500,000 sq. ? mi. desert in N China and Mongolia into which Pumpelly made explorations.
16. 17 Maggio: I, "17 May. " This date, and the following "19th May '59," identify events in Pound's private life.
17. H. D. : Hilda Doolittle, 1886? 1961, early love and lifelong friend of Pound's. She used the word "Serenitas" [111:20] about a translation from Sappho by her husband,
21. Portofino: Italian harbor town near Rapallo.
22.
Hesperides: Daughters of Atlas and Hes? peris who guarded the golden apples of a tree that the goddess Gea let sprout from her lap.
23. old countess: Perhaps the whoring coun? tess of Vienna [35/173].
24. Stef: Stephanie Y ankowska, a beautiful Polish girl Pound knew in Venice in 1908. When she read in the late 40s that a poet named Pound was locked up in St. Eliza? beths, she wanted to know if it was the young man she had known. Finding it was, she began a long campaign to get him re- leased and began a correspondence with EP which went on intensely during his St. Eliza- beths years. As a wealthy Polish expatriate, she knew almost everyone in the diplomatic corps in the capitals of Western Europe. It was through her intercession with the sister of Dag Hammarskjold that he cited lines
from Pound in the General Assembly of the United Nations; and it was her intercession with Mrs. John Foster Dulles in 1957 that helped with the decision to release Pound in 1958 [data from Jerzy Niemojowski friend of the Yankowska family].
25. Sir Ian: Prob. General Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton [104:37], staff officer in the British Army. Pound repeated the story Stephanie told him of their escape during the Communist takeover of Poland.
26. Petain: [79:18]. The lines refer to the Poles marching into the Ukraine in 1920. Petain warned the Poles against this action as a dangerous challenge to the Soviet Union [EH, Letzte, 95].
27. Kalenda maja: "The feast of Venus Gen- etrix, which survives as Mayday [celebra- tion]" [SR, 18]; also, "a famous Estampida of Raimbaut de Vacqueiras (1180. 1207]: Kalenda maia / Ni flor de faira / Ni cant d'auze]']" [EH, Letzte, 90]. Wilhelm calls the Raimbaut work "a rousing South French dance song (the music survives) . . . ; it has much of the joy and verve that Pound associ?
ates with the pagan roots of Provengal song and the beautiful landscapes in Languedoc" OW, Later, 188].
28. Li Sao: C, "Farewell to Sorrow," an elegy by the poet Ch'u Yuan (c. 338-288 B. C. ).
he resorts to this one. If he had lived to know of the extraordinary genetic coding of DNA, he would have been even more over- whelmed by the sense of design and the depth of the mystery of life in process.
30. grass versus . . . : A friend of mine,
when asked what his brother was doing, said J he was paving New Jersey. At the present it rate, the entire nation may be paved more
hibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. " Pound conceived this article as justifying a major tenet of Social Credit: "local control of local purchasing power. "
39. As to sin . . . : Pound
about the time of Pope Innocent III and therafter, the church, taking cues from Au? gustine and a few others, developed and ac- cented the whole horror of sin, especially the so? called sins of the flesh, and the absur? dity of hell? fire as a punishment, in order to dominate the minds of the people. Before that, in Provence and Italy, religious activity accented celebration and rejoicing, dancing and singing [114:28].
40. malvagita: I, "wickedness, nastiness. "
41. Limone: Town on Lake Garda.
42. (scala altrui): I, "the stairs of another. " Cacciaguida says to Dante: "You will prove how salt is the taste of another's bread, how hard the way up and down the stairs of another man" [Par. XVII, 58? 60] .
Richard Era, 57].
Aldington
("Atthis") [HK,
II Giusto Prezzo Medioevak' Studio Econo? "~ mica Politica [The just price in the Middle Ages: Studies in political economy], pub. in
1913 [EH, Letzte, 83]. 35. Giustizia: I, "justice. "
36. Mountain . . . seeping: Return to Na? khi landscape [JP,Agenda, 9? 2 & 3, 62].
37. kindofignorance". . . :[101/725].
38. Article X: Of the U. S. Constitution reads: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor pro?
44. Daphne: [2:26].
45. Syrian onyx: A vessel that contained embalming unguents. In Homage to P. Pound wrote: "Nor will you be weary of calling my name, nor too weary / To place the last kiss on my lips / When the Syrian onyx is broken" [P,219].
46. Ixion: The overthrown sun-god who is bound to an eternally turning, fiery sun wheel in Tartarus [80: 168].
18. Dieudonne's: [74: 178].
19. long flank Sappho poem.
20. garofani: I, "clovetrees. "
London
restaurant
Reflections on the
"carnations"
or
Ii 29. intelligent
in any language to cover what Pound means,
~
quickly than one might think.
31. Schwundgeld: G, technical term in Ge? sen's theory of money: "inflationary de- crease in money value. " Compared here with the Continental currency used to finance the American Revolution. As early as that, the currency devised proved that money could
". ' serve as both a standard and a medium of exchange. The desperate fact in Pound's '~ mind was that neither economists nor politi-
cians could learn this simple fact. 32. Parsley . . . : [97:292].
: A central
33. body
34. (Sac
. . . . . .
soul:, [98:20]. guisto): Sac. L. P.
Carioli wrote
. . .
: Since
there is no word
. . .
thesis of the
43. God's eye
poem. Divinity, the light descending, works through the intelligence of man. God acting in the world is revealed at one pole by the intelligence in the cherry stone and, at the other pole, through the mind of man and man's perception of beauty (TO WADV); his creative powers and his sense of humor (hila- ritas); his powers of kindness, mercy, and justice; and his impulse to rejoice through dance and song.
believed that
? 722
114/791-792
114/792-793, 115/794, 116/795
723
1. Pas . . . Freron: P, "Not even FIeron, I hate no one, not even Freron. "
2, Froron: Eli F" 1718-1776, fought for throne and altar against the Philosophes and the Encyclopedists. His strongest attacks were aimed at Voltaire.
3. Voltaire: [65:108]. In Le Pauvre Diable [The poor devil] V. said: "The other day, at the bottom of a dale / A serpent bit Jean Froron / What do you think happened? / It was the serpent who died" [EH, Letzte, 87].
4. Mr. Law: [100:24].
5. Tom Pick: Timothy Pickering [62:156; 63:7].
6. respect a good book . . . : Major tenet in Pound's ideas about literary criticism
[ABCR,28-35].
7. 0 di . . . natura: L, "0 of the diversity of nature. " From Dialog Y, "Concerning Infini~ ty," in The Dialogs ofBruno [Torino, 1932, p. 64]. The original has "e" ("and") instead of "0. " The lines concern the multiplicity of heavenly bodies [JE, Pai, 3-3,414-415].
8. (Giordano Bruno): Italian philosopher, 1548-1600, who defied the religious think? ing of his time and was arrested late in the Inquisition and burned at the stake by the Church of Rome. His central thesis, that deity is an infinite principle manifest in man and in all creation in a hierarchy of values, rhymes with Pound's own beliefs.
9. belly-ache: Bruno reasoned in a way dif- ferent from Plotinus, who had stomach trouble [99/700].
10. Ari: Aristotle was employed by Philip of Macedon to educate his son, who was to become Alexander the Great. During those years and after, Aristotle became a marine biologist.
II. bianco c(h)ade: I, "white falls. " From
Cavalcanti's Canzone d'amore V, 8 [36:13; MIN, 394-395].
12. Oneida: Pound's Uncle Loomis, whom he associates on the one hand with the Onei- da Colony Gealousy) and on the other with horse theft (property). The Oneida Colony (1847-1879) was founded by John Hum- phrey Noyes (1811-1886) on a collectivist basis. The commune practiced "complex marriage," a system in which all members were married to each other [Noyes, Social- ism, passim; EH,Pai, 3-3, 413-414].
13. Macleod: Joseph Gordon M. , Scottish poet who in 1936 called Pound's attention to the difference between property and pos- session [L, 279].
14. (Sandro's, Firenze): "Botticelli's, Flor- ence" [20:19].
15. Mu4. 5: [M4593]:"wood. "
16. Fu Hi: Fu Hsi [53:3]. His emblem is the T-square. In the table of succession (or evolution), he belongs to the change cycle "wood," which corresponds to the "power of imagination and growth" [EH, Letzte, 88]. The "metal" in the table is associated with Shao-hao, Pound's "Chan" [53:35], hence the line [53/264] "Chan by metal. "
17. "Harve: A relative of Pound's. Pound's grandmother (the Loomis side of Oneida County) provoked this memory: "I can re- member no phrase of hers save that once in a discussion of conduct, she said 'Harve was like that. ' The statement ended the matter"
[PD,II-12;37].
