Skilled Trades
Throughout Canto XLV, Pound tries to criticize the modern world's obsession with money by focusing on the more beautiful parts of life that money doesn't care about. One of the beautiful things he...
Classical Art
Of all the things that get ruined by a modern world obsessed with money, great art is the one that bothers Ezra Pound the most. For Pound, there's honestly not much point to life without beauty, an...
Fertility
If you know your Bible and your ancient myths, you'll know that the idea of fertility is central to pretty much all of Western thought, right up into the modern age. Simply put, fertility is the qu...