POUND (Ezra).
America, Roosevelt and the Causes of the Present War.
Near fine. Ownership inscription of Ian Angus penned on ffep.
Translation by John Drummond of Pound’s 1944 pamphlet, ‘L’America, Roosevelt e le Cause Della Guerra Presente,’ originally published in Mussolini’s Italy. Diagnosing international conflict as ‘not caused by any caprice on Mussolini’s part, nor on Hitler’s,’ Pound describes instead ‘the secular war between usurers and peasants’. Pound’s monomaniacal history of usury ‘begins with the loans of seed-corn in Babylon’ and extends to the failed economic promise and embedded in the founding of the U.S. Republic; an attempt to read the world through a lens that inexorably led the modernist poet towards his affiliation with fascism.
