Nature, genius, and the state of the world—Canto II: seeing the light— Le Testament or Pound’s Villon: in the dark—A new theory of harmony—Year 1 of a new era: kaleidoscope—A renaissance man—Life and times: 1923–1924
Human complications—Saving the world by pure form—A sextant for A Draft of XXX Cantos —Literary relations old and new—In the sphere of action—Cavalcanti: the intelligence of love—Threads, tesserae
Il Poeta meets Il Duce—Revolutionary economics—Making music of history: Cantos 31–41 —Note: A historian, the Bank Wars, and the New Deal
4. Things Fall Apart, 1933–1937
To spread order about him—The turning point: 1935–1936—‘The boss knows his business’—Music, money, cantos— The Fifth Decad: against Usura—The form and pressure of the time
‘Immediate need of Confucius’—Signor Mussolini speaks—To educate—Anschluss—Going wrong, thinking of rightness—Czechoslovakia sacrificed—Comings and goings—The end of Czechoslovakia—Two books for governors: (1) cantos 52–61—Two books for governors: (2) cantos 62–71
A. Outline of Pound’s Le Testament or Villon
B. A brief history of Le Testament or Villon
C. Outline of Cavalcanti. A sung dramedy in 3 acts
D. ‘Huey, God bless him’, an unpublished article (1935)
E. The founding of the Bank of England, and the US National Banking Act