Tim, I like your questions but I am unable to answer all of them at
this time.  Part of my answer involves the following from Philip Burns,
editing correspondence between EP and Congressman Tinkham of
Massachusetts:
 
"But Pound the lecturer and social critic, the venter of spleen and
opinion, and even the self-acknowledged Great Man are subordinate to
Pound the citizen-in-absentia, the eccentric patriot bent on action,
the intellectual in the (hypothetical) caucus room."
 
I remember reading about Confucius wanting to personally advise his
king, in the same way Pound wrote letters to FDR and Eleanor.  What I
don't know is how much Pound knew about Confucius, because so much of
what I have studied was written/translated after Pound's post-war
translations.
 
The answer to your question about what institutions Pound sought to
revitalize is in the letters of Jefferson and Adams.  I ran out of time
in my research there and I regret to leave you only with more questions
of my own.  I hope to research more later, thank you.
 
--- Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Kristen,
> Are you willing to elaborate upon what you mean by "American
> renaissance"? What institutions of this country was Pound seeking to
> revitalize? What qualities in its citizens? And how did his
> understanding of Mencius fit in with this?
>
> Tim Romano
>
 
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