Midway through Ezra Pound's career, there is a noticeable shift in focus. He turns his attention from strictly literary criticism and poetry to social and political topics, specifically economics and fascism. What prompts this shift? How does it affect his poetry? On the second of two episodes on Pound, we investigate these changes and discuss Pound's turn to Italian fascism, as well as the development of his life's work, The Cantos.
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