Ezra Pound and 'Globe' Magazine by McWhirter Cameron Davis Michael T

Author:McWhirter, Cameron,Davis, Michael T.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK

1 The “Farewell” Pound referred to was Edward VIII’s abdication radio speech. According to a comment Pound made in a Rome radio broadcast on May 10, 1942, the quotation came from a personal letter Remy de Gourmont sent to the poet. This letter seems not to have survived.

2 Pound intended the sentence to read: “...after a fortnight if unimportant...” See EP22 where he complained that Globe had made the mistake.

3 Ezra and Dorothy Pound lived above the Albergo Grande Italia & Lido Hotel in Rapallo.

4 On December 11, 1936, Edward VIII, after less than a year on the throne, delivered a radio address entitled “A Farewell” in which he made the now famous statement: “I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.”

5 For Stanley Baldwin, see EP11 note 13. For Neville Chamberlain, see EP42 note 2.

6 For Anthony Eden and his marriage to the daughter of Sir William Gervase Beckett, see EP12 notes 4 and 7.

7 For the Beckett family and their connections, see EP12.

8 Alfred Duff Cooper

9 Pound probably was referring to Baron Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon as a “parsee” because his family could trace its family to Iraq, where, according to local tradition, it had settled after the Reconquista of the Iberian peninsula in 1492. Sassoon’s grandfather Sir Albert Abdulah David had been born in Baghdad.

10 Pound’s reference to Cicero, Illinois, was meant to compare Stanley Baldwin with the gangster Al “Scarface” Capone. Capone had his residence in this Chicago suburb.

11 An excerpt from Pound’s longer doggerel sent to Dunn four days after Edward VIII abdicated, see see EP11.

12 The Gazzetta del Popolo was a Turin-based popular political newspaper founded in 1848.

13 Cosmo Gordon Lang

14 Alfred Tennyson. Pound refers to Queen Victoria here as “Viccy.”

15 The novelist Henry James (1843–1916) published William Wetmore Story and Friends, a remembrance of the sculptor Story and his circle, including Browning, in 1903. James also published accounts of his friendships with various writers and artists, including Browning and Tennyson, in his posthumously published The Middle Years (1917).

16 The London Sporting Times was printed on pink sheets and was known popularly as the “Pink’un.”

17 Marie Corelli

18 Sir Edward D. Bacon

19 Edward VII died in 1910 and George V assumed the throne at the age of 45.

20 Pound is probably paraphrasing H. G. Wells’ famous and widely publicized remark that George V ruled over an “alien and uninspiring court.” Wells made the comment in 1914, reflecting not only his distaste for the dull and uninspiring person of George V, but also emphasizing the German origins of the royal house as well as the fact that Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Russian Czar Nicholas II were his first cousins. It was due to such anti-German sentiments, which the British people shared, that at the outbreak of World War I, George V abandoned the family name Saxe-Coburg and

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