page_title: List of cultural references in The Cantos
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hierarchical_section_title: List of cultural references in The Cantos / F
context_page_description: This is a list of persons, places, events, etc. that feature in Ezra Pound's The Cantos, a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto. It is a book-length work, widely considered to present formidable difficulties to the reader. Strong claims have been made for it as one of the most significant works of modernist poetry of the twentieth century. As in Pound's prose writing, the themes of economics, governance and culture are integral to its content.
  The most striking feature of the text, to a casual browser, is the inclusion of Chinese characters as well as quotations in European languages other than English. Recourse to scholarly commentaries is almost inevitable for a close reader. The range of allusion to historical events and other works of literature is very broad, and abrupt changes occur with the minimum of stage directions.
  This list serves as a collection of links to information on a wide range of these references with clear indications of the cantos in which they appear. It also gives relevant citations to Pound's other writings, especially his prose, and translations of non-English words and phrases where appropriate.
context_section_description: Fascism - Although Pound never joined the Fascist Party, he clearly admired Mussolini's brand of the ideology. The word itself does not appear in The Cantos, but the political philosophy it stands for can be readily detected in the poem, especially in the sections written during the 1930s.
  Faunus - God of fields and forests - Canto XC
  Desmond FitzGerald – Irish-born Imagist poet who fought in the Easter Rising of 1916 and later served in the government of the Irish Free State – Cantos XCII, XCV
  Flamen Dialis – Roman priest of Jupiter – Canto XCVI
  Gustave Flaubert - Canto LXXXII
  Folquet de Marseille - Troubadour turned bishop who was involved in the suppression of the Cathars - Canto XCII
  Ford Madox Ford - Canto LXXXII - Cantos XCVIII, C: buy a dictionary and learn the meanings of words
  Piero della Francesca - Canto VIII: the master painter
  Fortuna – Canto XCVII
  Benjamin Franklin Cantos LXII – LXXI In Canto LXIII, the Latin sentence "Eripuit caelo fulmen, mox sceptra tyrannis." (" He snatched the thunderbolt from heaven, the sceptre from tyrants.") is the inscription on Jean-Antoine Houdon's bust of Franklin.
  John Charles Fremont – Explorer and Union general during American Civil War. – Canto LXXXIX
  Sigmund Freud – Canto XCI
  Leo Frobenius - Cantos XXXVIII, LXXIV, LXXXIX
  Buckminster Fuller (Buckie) – Canto XCVII
caption: Benjamin Franklin
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