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It has been commonly understood that the carnage and tragedy of the First World War and the economic crises that followed it steered Soddy into economics (Merricks 1996, 108). Other notable public figures, such as Ezra Pound, followed a similar path for like reasons—though Pound s political sympathies moved him into fascism, while Soddy remained on the Left. As we shall see, however, Soddy s alchemical interests helped him connect chemistry to monetary theory. He would eventually cast that relationship as both moral and scientific. 

Fresh eyes and fresh souls were opened to the rottenness of art and fife. Ezra Pound was requested to submit something nasty for Blast25 and presented some condensed Imagist poems (of no particular merit and some of no merit at all , in the opinion of The Times s reviewer) on colour, artifice and chemicality. Their nastiness lay in their reference to the modern age s fakery and chemical inauthenticity. Ezra Pound s condensed Imagist poems on colour, artifice and chemicality fizzled on the pages of Blast. 

Mullins, C.E. 1992b [1985]. The World Order Our Secret Rulers. Staunton, VA Ezra Pound Institute of Civilization. 

Ezra Pound, indicted for treason, is declared mentally unfit to stand trial. He is confined in St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., for thirteen years. In 1958, he released as "incurably insane, but not dangerous. Judge Bolitha J. Laws speaks these words to the jury that declared Pound... 

Quoted in Julien Cornell, The Trial of Ezra Pound, p. 37. 

Cornell, J. The Trial of Ezra Pound A Documented Account of the Treason Case by the Defendant s Lawyer. New York John Day, 1966. 

These observations seem confirmed by Yeats s remarks as she recorded them on Eliot and Ezra Pound He said that Tom very cleverly made use of mythologies, for instance the Fisher King in the Waste Land 8c mythologies are necessary. Ezra Pound writes beautifully when he uses them. Then suddenly must speak of - some common object - 8c at once his rhythm breaks (D3, p. 330). 

Maud Ellmann, The Poetics of Impersonality T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (Sussex Harvester Press, 1987), p. 38. 

Ezra Pound, Through Alien Eyes, i . The New Age (16 January 1913), repr. in Ezra Pound s Poetry and Prose Contributions to Periodicals, Vol. i, ipoz-14, ed. Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz and James Longenbach (New York Garland, 1991)) P- II4- See my discussion of this in Imagism and Empire , in Booth and Rigby, Modernism and Empire, pp. 64-92. 

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