Ezra Pound's Remarks During an Italian Radio Broadcast

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Ezra Pound's Remarks During an Italian Radio Broadcast

1942

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2194747

This is a sound recording of an Italian radio broadcast, including a 15 - minute speech by Ezra Pound entitled "Power" in which Pound said: "The President hath power. The President has no legal power to enter into devious and secret agreements with foreign powers...To send the boys from Omaha to Singapore to die for British monopoly and brutality is not the act of an American patriot."

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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

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Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American l...