Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light

The instalments of Ezra Pound''s life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic. Beautiful and tormented, enigmatic and irascible by turns, they express the poet''s struggle to reconcile his striving for justice with his extreme Right politics. In heavily coded language, Pound was writing activis...