Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ante). The new Constitution, it was announced, would give "equality before the law" to all ethnically pure Rumanians and also to "all people of other races who have lived for centuries on Rumanian soil," thus continuing the distinction made by Jew-baiting former Premier Goga between members of ancient Rumanian Jewish families and the great number of Jews who since the World War have crowded into Rumania as refugees. As another detail of his plan for a better Rumania, Dictator Hohenzollern also announced the abolition of trial by jury...
Echoed and re-echoed throughout the Cantos are two ancient legends-the Homeric tale of Odysseus' journey through Hades, the Ovidian tale of the seamen who, while kidnapping Bacchus, were transformed to dolphins as their ship, becalmed, sprouted grape-laden vines. The legends appear indiscriminately in ancient. Renaissance and modern dress, according to whichever time or whatever place Poet Pound's eruditely literate, expatriated sensibilities lead him to be thinking about. The resultant confusion is only skin-deep -since to any man, anywhere, any time, life may seem like Hell; and some sea-change in men or matter...
...does some powerful cursing at usury in English, Latin, and Greek: he calls it commune sepulchrum helandros kai heleptolis kai helarxe (everybody's grave -man-destroying-and city-destroying- and state-destroying). Throughout history Poet Pound sees the same monetary blood-sucking going on, whether in profaned ancient Greek temples, perverted lyth-Century Mounts of Pity (i.e., municipal pawnshops), or stone-faced 20th-century banks...
Some will feel that such passages accomplish, or at least adumbrate the sea-change implicit in Poet Pound's thematic material. Others will feel that they are merely adept professional steals from worn-out bags of poetic tricks-in this instance ancient Chinese-exquisitely lighted and beautifully shaped, like every drop of water that ever pleased a duck, and ran right off his back. Opinions pro or opinions con, Poet Pound has 49 Cantos still to go before he circumnavigates to judgment...
...early Welsh dictionary given by Thomas Hollis and a book of ancient Welsh laws, the "Black Book of Chirk" are the features of the Welsh exhibition. A case of modern Welsh books is also on display. Several Bibles translated into Gaelic especially for the Scots round out the exhibit...