Canto XLV Resources

Great poems and commentary comin' at you from the University of Illinois.

This site's got trivia galore, plus a pretty thorough look at Ezra's life.

Check out this handy timetable of Pound's life and some other cool links.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Ezra Pound. And then some. And then some more. Be sure to follow the links through to the subsequent parts of the documentary.

Here, you'll find Pound reading Canto XLV and doing his best impression of a mummy. Oh yeah, and in case you missed the point, he tries to explain the difference between interest and usura at the end. We would also like to point out that this man was born in Idaho, which does nothing to explain his accent.

Check out this site for an amazing database of Pound recordings.

We like how Ezra's turning up his nose here. Seems fitting, no?

This handy article in The Occidental Observer gives a nice little overview of Pound's hardline views on modern economics.

Critic Richard Sieburth takes us through some of the things we should be looking for whenever we listen to something written by ol' Pound Cake himself.

Here is one of the best places to find all of Ezra Pound's views on modern economics and finance collected in one place.

Author Peter Nicholls gives us what is probably a more balanced and sober view of Pound's economics than Pound himself ever would.

Here, we've got a book with articles written by different experts on Pound's Cantos. Like they say, many heads are better than one.