From the preface: The purpose of this thesis is exposition rather than criticism. Pound's position in the hierarchy of the 'New Criticism' would provide an extremely interesting subject; but I have rather tried to outline; the standards which he has laid down as being central in the technics of good poetry and to show how closely he has adhered to them in his own verse. I have limited the period to be discussed because all of the essential principles which he employs in his writing after 1920 are discernible in the body of his work published before that date.

The purpose of this thesis is to offer some explination of the manner in which Ezra Pound has created a metaphysical centre for The Cantos through absorption and integration of the Renaissance metaphysic of courtly and transcendent love and the pragmatic ethical philosophy of Confucius. It resolves no problems, either textual or critical, but rather suggests that the thirty-sixth Canto is central to the philosophy underlying the poem as a whole. From the central fourth chaper, the thesis attempts to give some idea of the nature of Pound's influence upon one other poet and how this influence has resulted in a new evaluation of the original Cavalcanti material. The short intoductory chapter outlines the nature of the problem of love as an ordering principle which provides a reconciliation of the disparate and seemingly opposing forces which shape human experience. This unity, it is stated, represents an attempt on the part of western man to integrate his dualistic response to the world of Process, an essentially eastern concept. Chapter two outlines the nature of Cavalcanti's poem and the philosophy of love which it contains. Apparently, this poem has yet to be interpreted with any degree of finality and I have necessarily had to work through the general concensus of critical opinion. The third chapter points to Pound's conception of the philosophy of Guido Cavalcanti's canzon and how Pound has interpreted the "guerdon" of the amour courtois tradition as the Confucian doctrine of li. Chapter four explores the connexion between Pound's conception and interpretation of Donna Me Prega and how, from the concept of individual compassion, Pound envisions a viable order for the society of western man, while continually maintaining the concept of the universe as Process. The fifth chapter deals with Robert Duncan's stated variation on Pound's view of Donna Me Prega and the philosophy contained therein, and offers some comments on the different possibilities of order, or lack of same, as expressed by Duncan. The conclusion discusses the metaphysical concept of love as a principle of unity in relation to some modern statements of epistemology and aesthetics, and concludes that Pound has expressed the sense of order and unity in a more universal and objective manner than has Duncan. The addendum of chapter seven suggests some possibilities for further research into these areas and concludes that Ezra Pound's consciousness of the Processal universe is essentially oriental, ie., an aesthetic response, while the concept remains largely an intellectual postulate in the western world. On the whole, the primary concern is for the explanation of the relationship among such elements as imagination, transcendent love, human social order, and the concept of the universe as an all-embracing Process of interacting elements. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

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La morphogénèse des ovocoques, dont fait partie le pathogène humain Streptococcus pneumoniae, implique des processus d’élongation et de division associés à la synthèse de la paroi bactérienne. Le composant majeur de cette paroi est le peptidoglycane, un polymère de sucre réticulé par des chaines peptidiques, qui confère la forme de la bactérie et est essentiel à sa survie. La synthèse de peptidoglycane nécessaire à l’élongation et la division bactérienne est effectuée par des complexes protéiques appelés respectivement « élongasome » et « divisome ». Les mécanismes d’assemblage et l’activité de ces complexes dans la cellule bactérienne restent encore non élucidés. Pour imager l’activité des complexes de synthèse du peptidoglycane in vivo à l’échelle du nanomètre, j’ai développé une méthode faisant appel à des dérivés de D-amino acides, à la chimie click et à la microscopie de localisation de molécules uniques (dSTORM ou direct Stochastic reconstruction microscopy). Cette méthode a permis d’obtenir des images à une résolution d’environ 20 nm, révélant des aspects inattendus de la synthèse du peptidoglycane et remettant en question le rôle de certaines protéines dans la morphogenèse du pneumocoque. En combinant ces observations avec les données de la littérature, un modèle simplifié de la morphogénèse des ovocoques est proposé. / The morphogenesis of ovovcocci, which include the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae, involves elongation and division processes associated with cell wall synthesis. The main component of the cell wall is the peptidoglycan, a polymer made of glycan chains cross-linked by peptide chains, which confers the bacterial shape and is essential for cell survival. Peptidoglycan synthesis required for cell elongation and division is performed by large protein complexes called “elongasome” and “divisome”, respectively. The assembly mechanisms and activity of these complexes in the bacterial cell remain mysterious. To image the activity of the peptidoglycan synthesis complexes in vivo at the nanoscale, I developed a method combining D-amino acid derivatives, click chemistry and single-molecule localization microscopy (dSTORM or direct Stochastic reconstruction microscopy). This method allowed obtaining images at a resolution of about 20 nm resolution, revealing unexpected features of peptidoglycan synthesis and challenging the role of some proteins in pneumococcus morphogenesis. By combining these observations with data from the literature, a simplified model of ovococci morphogenesis is proposed.