Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light

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).

• 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 CourtChapter Two: Obstacles to Understanding the Washington Cantos Aesopian Language and Its ProblemsPound’s Reading and the Poverty of PhilologyTrobar ClusPound’s “Late Style” The “Cleaners Manifesto” Chapter Three: Two States’ Rights Fables: John Randolph of Roanoke and Canto 103John RandolphCanto 103 Chapter Four : The Aryanist Vortex: Pound’s Metapolitics and White SupremacyPound’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 CivilizationPound’s ‘Egyptian Problem’ Chapter Six: Sheri Martinelli and the Paradise of VenusEzra Pound: “a great stud…” Trobar Clus Chapter Seven: Sheri Martinelli: Right Wing MuseChapter Eight: Apollonius of TyanaChapter Nine: Pound and Sovereignty: Canto 97, “nummolary theory” and the Sacred Ratios. “REAL Ideology”Chapter Ten: Pound’s Agrarian Bent: Physiocracy Against DegradationChapter Eleven: The Coke Cantos as an Argument for the Defense The Connecticut Charter Pound and Catherine Drinker BowenFour AcresChapter Twelve: Pound at Colonus: The Poet as OedipusAfterwordAppendix A: A Primer of Poundian EconomicsAppendix B: “Homage to Grandpa” by Sheri Martinelli Bibliography Index