I wonder whether anyone can help me find the source of a reference to a
passage in Pound.  I am an editor on the Collected Works of Northrop Frye
project (out of McMaster University and the University of Toronto).  We
have come upon a reference to Pound in one of Frye's late sermons ("On
Lent," dated 8 April 1988).  Frye is talking there about the ancient,
pre-Christian dependence of human societies on agriculture and their
anxiety "for the burial of seed in the ground."  Frye writes:  "Ezra Pound
remarks that there seem to be two kinds of people:  the people who think
that sexual and other forms of licence are good for the crops and those
who think they are bad for the crops."
        Frye is notorious for paraphrasing other writers, as he seems to
have done here.  If anyone has an idea of where this comes from in Pound,
or what Frye might be paraphrasing, I'd very much appreciate hearing from
you.
 
Yours,
 
Jeffery Donaldson
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada