Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 by A. David Moody

Author:A. David Moody [Moody, A. David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780198704362
Google: AXQsCgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-09-24T20:45:19+00:00

Black Americans were most needed in America as ‘a humanizing element’, he told Olivia Agresti.

He did that, however, in a paragraph which, taken as a whole, while not racist was racialist. That is, it expressed Pound’s belief in the persistence of racial characteristics as the basis of culture, in this following Agassiz rather than Frobenius, the latter having regarded not race but the determinant ideas and practices of a society as the essence of its paideuma or ethos. Between the wars Pound had followed Frobenius’ lead, but now his hope for a better society, and his fear of a worse, could be vested in what he took to be more or less fixed racial types. So he could write to Signora Agresti,

marse blackman will most certainly not return to africa to infect what the dirty brits have left there/ with any more occidental hogwash/ He will stay here (incidentally D’s one comfort) being human and refusing to be poured into a mould and cut to the stingkging pattern on the slicks and the weakly papers.

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