The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Books)

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Cantos XLII, XLIII and XLIV move to the Sienese bank, the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena and to the 18th-century reforms of Pietro Leopoldo, Habsburg Arch Duke of Tuscany. Founded in 1624, the Monte dei Paschi was a low-interest, not-for-profit credit institution whose funds were based on local productivity as represented by the natural increase generated by the grazing of sheep on community land (the "BANK of the grassland" of Canto XLIII). As such, it represents a Poundian non-capitalist ideal.

Example: Preda, Roxana. The Online Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound, IV: n.13. The Cantos Project. Web. 5 September 2016. Find sources: "The Cantos"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( August 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) In the twelfth line of this stanza, Odysseus mentions the Kimmerian, a mythical group of people who supposedly lived at the edge of the world. These wretched people lived forever in the mist and darkness of that place. There were no stars only eternal night. The Cantos Project is a digital research environment (DRE) dedicated to the study of Ezra Pound’s monumental long poem. The project is edited by Andrew Taylor and Roxana Preda at the School of Literatures Languages and Cultures of the University of Edinburgh and is funded by the Leverhulme Trust until June 2021. This generous funding will permit Preda to create annotation for the first 60 cantos, corresponding to the early and middle periods of Pound's creative output. Pearlman, D. (1969). The barb of time: On the unity of Ezra Pound’s cantos. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Other sources indicate 44 steps, as the first row of seats is raised from the bottom floor of the arena. Pound was aware of the discrepancy when he wrote in canto XI: “I have sat here/ for forty four thousand years” (XI: ll.85-86; see also OCCEP XI: n.32).

A. A. Live man goes down into world of dead. C. B. 'The repeat in history.' B. C. The 'magic moment' or moment of metamorphosis, bust through from quotidian into 'divine or permanent world.' Gods, etc. Gildersleeve, B. (2003). “Enigma” at the heart of paradise: Buddhism, Kuanon, and the feminine ideogram in the cantos. In Z. Qian (Ed.), Ezra Pound and China (pp. 193–212). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. Wade Giles to Pinyin Conversion Table.” The University of Chicago Library: East Asian Collection. Free online. See also table and commentary at Mandarinportal.com.Canto LIII covers the period from the founding of the Xia dynasty to the life of Confucius and up to circa 225 BCE. Special mention is made of emperors that Confucius approved of and the sage's interest in cultural matters is stressed. For example, we are told that he edited the Book of Odes, cutting it from 3000 to 300 poems. The canto also ascribes the Poundian motto (and title of a 1934 collection of essays) Make it New to the emperor Tching Tang. Canto LIV moves the story on to around 805 CE. The line "Some cook, some do not cook, / some things can not be changed" refers to Pound's domestic situation and recurs, in part, in Canto LXXXI. Yeh, M. H. (1987). Metaphor and bi: Western and Chinese poetic. Comparative Literature, 39(3), 237–254. Shi Qing, dir. “The Lady of the Dynasty.” [The story of the Tang queen Yang Yuhuan, also known as Yang Guifei]. Featuring Fan Bingbing, Leon Lai and Wu Chun. 2015. YouTube.