Missed this post -- very illuminating.  The New Age is on line, by the way,
at the Brown University (now Brown and Tulsa) modernist journals project.
It's nearly finished and is text-searchable.  A great contribution.

Regards,

Tim Redman

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Charles:

More on Pound and Nietzsche

Pound may never have actually studied Nietzsche.  The book by A. R. Orage,
"Frederick Nietzsche: The Dionysian Spirit of the Age" published in 1908 has
been suggested as possibly being Pound's Nietzschean source book.  Leon
Surette describes the Orage/Pound/Nietzsche relationship quite well starting
on page 220 of "Birth of Modernism"

My copy of Orage's book is quite interesting for the front paper notes put
there by the original owner.  The original owner signed the book V. de M.
1908 and wrote notes on 3 of the front papers in the same ink as the
initials.  Some of those notes are quite telling of the intellectual times.

"Sin,--a Jewish invention" (dashes as original)

"Ye lonely ones of today, ye who stand apart, ye shall one day be a people"

"The more emancipated from religion the more impervious does morality
become"

"The race is corrupted not by its vices but by its ignorance."

"It is better to act wickedly than to think pettily"

"*The* way----existeth (sic) not-!" (dashes as orignial, emphasis as
original)

and the last I will quote

"Life is something essentially immoral."

Rick Seddon
McIntosh, NM