Wyndham Lewis (author of Tarr and of Cantleman's Spring Mate): Lewis published the short story “Cantleman's Spring- Mate” in The Little Review in October 1917 and the wartime novel Tarr the following year. The “criticism of Shakespeare” that Pound attributes to Lewis can be found at length in the painter-writer's study of Machiavelli's influence on the bard, The Lion and the Fox: The Role of the Hero in the Plays of Shakespeare (1927).

Rutland … Baconians: The controversial authorial attribution of Shakespeare's comedies to Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland (1576–1612), first proposed around the turn of the twentieth century, gained traction when University of Brussels professor, Celestin Demblon, published Lord Rutland et Shakespeare in 1912 and L'Auteur d'Hamlet two years later. However, as Pound sardonically notes, Rutland would have been much too young to have created at least some of the plays—he was only sixteen when Venus and Adonis was published. As early as 1805, Rev. J. Wilmot, rector of Bartonon- the-Heath, near Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford, speculated authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626), though he later recanted his theory.

Mischung von Totemismus … (Auspragen also monetize or coin): Fragments from Petri's Die Geldformen der Sudsee (cf. note GK 133), the first two of which translate as “mixture of totemism … Papuan-speaking.” Pound translates the longer German phrase himself (i.e., “The idea of a measure of value not yet sharply defined”). Auspragen, as Pound suggests (albeit with a missing umlaut), means “minting coins.”

An England without … … … : The unexpurgated GK shows “Runciman” in the elision, a reference to Sir Walter Runciman (1870–1949), British Liberal Member of Parliament and president of the Board of Trade until his resignation in May 1937, the episode hinted at here.

(for Regius professoriate … vide Hollis’ Two Nations): Allusion to the scathing critique of Regius professors at Oxford in Christopher Hollis's The Two Nations: A Financial Study of English History (1935).