Gautier's Albertus: Published in 1832, Gautier's long narrative poem Albertus ou l'ame et le peche, legende theologique marks a self-conscious aesthetic transition from the morbid Romanticism of his earlier verse to a rebellious affirmation of poetic autonomy and art for art's sake (cf. note GK 178).

Turgenev or James or Whistler or Picasso, had to know Paris: Cf. notes GK 200, 31, 110, 71, respectively. In 1914, Pound acknowledged the cultural vitality of the French capital, hailing it as “an intellectual and artistic vortex.”

Camillo Cavour? Browning carried on from Landor: Cf. notes GK 76, 84, 287. Col. Jackson: Joseph Jackson, the “Old Colonel Jackson” quoted in Canto 80 complimenting Gaudier-Brzeska on the sculptor's pledge to fight for France, while proposing to “cook for the armies of Ulster” despite his advanced age (80/524).

Luke Ionides: (1837–1924), Anglo-Greek art patron and collector, and a lifelong friend of Whistler (cf. note GK 110).

Palmerston: Henry John Temple, Third Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), British Prime Minister from 1855 to 1858 and again from 1859 to 1864. Pound's citing Palmerston as a benchmark of masculinity may be due to the politician's brash disregard for Victorian mores and “cheerfully amoral private life.”

Gosse's generation: Edmund Gosse (1849–1928), English translator, literary historian, and critic. Gosse's reputation suffered in his own time when his From Shakespeare to Pope (1885) was savaged by the literary critic John Churton Collins (1848–1908). In his book review, Collins exposed Gosse for not having read some of the books critiqued in the study.

Douglas had been in India: C. H. Douglas claimed to have been Chief Reconstruction Engineer for British Westinghouse Company in India, but the company has no record of his employment.

Goeben: S.M.S. Goeben, a powerful dreadnought of the German Imperial Navy. In 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War, the battleship reached Constantinople after eluding an Allied chase, a prelude to the Ottoman Empire's entry into the war on the side of the Central Powers.