Ezra Pound Radio #33 (May 4, 1942) "Universality"
#33 (May 4, 1942) U.S.(B38) "Universality"
"The best reason for publishing Ezra Pound's broadcasts may be the simplest. Thousands of people have heard about them, scores have been effected by them, yet but a handful has ever heard or read them. Here they are." - Foreword
"Pound wrote these scripts; they are part of his legacy. He is so important in American and British literature of the twentieth century that whatever he wrote cannot be ignored. The speeches, more over, are valuable from a historical standpoint: they reveal what one man, broadcasting from an enemy radio station during World War II, believed his countrymen should hear. On the basis of what he said, moreover, Pound was arrested and accused of treason; he spent 13 years in St. Elizabeth's Hospital (a government institution for the criminally insane in Washington, D.C.) as a result." - Introduction
Source: "Ezra Pound Speaking" - Radio Speeches of WWII
Edited by Leonard W. Doob
Link to text: archive.org/stream/EzraPoundS...
This recording is an interpretation and not the original broadcast.
#09 and #11 are the only original broadcast recordings (Pound's voice) in this collection.
Closed Caption (CC) is source text.
Пікірлер: 46
Thank you very much for posting these podcasts.
The Greatest Man of the 20th Century!!! A Poet and Prophet!
THE ONE.
That carried some weight. Maybe he should have said how he really felt.
What is it all about?I sense anger mistrust wounded.But it is still very important to hear and listen assess and e evaluate the expressions of the bruised Person. I am open minded and want to learn and athirst of knowledge wisdom or whatever so that I can lift myself up.....
@actualideas8078
3 жыл бұрын
It is about fascism and its merits. It is about the infiltration into American politics that has been the cause of every American war.
just jesus and the temple/ and indeed israel became in 1948/ jesus did not got along with the other rabbis, problem . how justice rearranges the issue. for the human, however for perhaps energy ?
@actualideas8078
3 жыл бұрын
You mean jesus wasn’t down with raping little girls? Blasphemy!
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This unintentionally comical and hilarious. To hear a man with such advanced linguistic and poetic skills spew a bunch of inflated racist gibberish is laughable. And mind-boggling.
@seanettles657
3 жыл бұрын
I suggest you read more. Where did he get his opinions from? His judgments? Read more. You're assuming you know what he's saying and why
@bjwnashe5589
3 жыл бұрын
Sea_ Nettles No I don't think so. I've read a lot of Pound. I think his early poetry is brilliant. But he was traumatized by the First World War (understandable), and then became enraptured by fascist ideology (despicable). It's a tragic story. But these radio broadcasts are ridiculous and pathetic. You want to,defend them?
@lepersonnage371
Жыл бұрын
@@bjwnashe5589 You know nothing, literally zero. Not about history, not about its causes.
How a great poet can make foul himself into complete idioticy... Nevertheless, it is good to be published. More important to note that he later changed his views, regarding this as a provincial prejudice (cf. Wikipedia).
@ethant001
5 жыл бұрын
He was a more learned man than you ever had the effort to be.
@valeriegriner5644
5 жыл бұрын
You obviously never read the Babylonian Talmud. It is more filth than a HUMAN soul can bear...total depravity. Pound was right in all that he said.
@actualideas8078
3 жыл бұрын
Dude are you really that stupid? Everything he is saying is legit. The banking system is completely corrupt and America has been fighting pointless wars for over a century.
@actualideas8078
3 жыл бұрын
Jim Newcombe don’t forget, all the smart people have been killed...
what did he have against the Hebrews/Jewish people, anyway ? was it a result of the propaganda at the time...it sounds crazy to me, because as a people, the Jewish culture highly values intellectual pursuit....hmmmm.
@mandys1505
5 жыл бұрын
p.s i often wonder about this...because T.S> Eliot was the same way!!
@ethant001
5 жыл бұрын
They were right, still are. They were learned men who abandoned the mob and it's unthinking protections. It's in their colectivist religion . Do some research off of google, you'll be shocked.
@theylivewesleep925
5 жыл бұрын
There's so much you don't know about please research this man
@valeriegriner5644
5 жыл бұрын
The Babylonian Talmud...read it and be shocked.
@valeriegriner5644
5 жыл бұрын
@@ethant001 Yes...they WERE right...and still are!
The vanity of the man was staggering. His hate filled conclusions were obnoxious and deluded.
@actualideas8078
3 жыл бұрын
Are you a fed?
@seanettles657
3 жыл бұрын
Try attacking his ideas based on your own independent research rather than operating based on the taboos you've been fed. True intellectual honesty knows no bounds - you simply must be careful to see who is speaking to you, why, and what they want you to think - and whether or not they have good evidence.