Pound's search for the word with clear meaning,  the foundation for
cultures without 'quick-sand' beneath them, was not a misguided
philological quest for the original  'Adamic language' or a romantic desire
for Origins.  He was after precise terminology, definition, the mot juste,
and propounded a theory (cf. How to Read) in which in is the artist's
responsibility to keep the language from becoming slushy and inexact. See
what he says in Guide to Kulchur about the language of the medieval schoolmen:

        "There flourished during the best age of 'scholastic thought'
a very great and high verbal culture. Having almost nothing but words
to deal with, the ecclesiastical doctors cared for (that is took care of)
their terminology. A method of using words, a method of definition
arose, or was kept, tended, developed, and we, today, lose a great
deal by not knowing it, I mean by not knowing it as deeply and finely
as they did."
        -- "The New Learning"

Tim Romano