As everyone knows, Pound was kicked out of the academy, and once he achieved fame, tried to get back to the U.S. from Europe in that capacity. Unfortunately, he had become too boistrous and  pro-fascist, and no department wanted him. His poetry, too, is arguably that best suited for the researcher, for the academic. The Cantos are the professor's friend more so than they are the friend of those who would simply open up a page randomly on the bookshelf. 
   As this quote is a response to the assertion that Pound wanted to be an academic, how are we to take it?  Are envy of the man with the steady job, and no worry about the future the baser passions the poet would express?  If so, the quote confirms the assertion on the one hand, and on the other, critiques the persona that would revel in the carefree life.  Kind of a proto Philip Larkin (Toads, Toads Revisited)?
     
 
>>> Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]> 08/20 10:18 AM >>>
"Come, my songs, let us express our baser passions,
Let us express our envy of the man with a steady job and no worry about the
future."
 
 
Daniel Pearlman wrote:
 
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> [...] EP would have liked nothing better than to have become
> a REAL professor rather than just working out of his own
> Ezuversity.