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- Andrew Jackson - President of the U.S. who opposed establishment of the Bank of the United States. - Cantos LXXXVIII, LXXXIX, C
- Henry James - In his 1918 essay Henry James (written as the introduction to a James special issue of the Little Review that Pound edited to mark the novelist's death), Pound describes James as a "hater of tyranny…against oppression, against all the sordid petty personal crushing oppression, the domination of modern life". - Canto VII: James' conversation remembered in terms reminiscent of the 1918 essay. The phrase "gli occhi onesti e tarde" ("with dignified and slow eyes") echoes Dante's description of Sordello in Purgatorio VI and is used in the canto, the essay, and Pound's 1918 short poem Moeurs Contemporaines. - Cantos LXXIV, LXXIX
- John Jay – one of the ministers involved in treaty negotiations with Britain and France. – Canto LXV
- Thomas Jefferson - Cantos XXXI - XXXIV and LXII - LXXI
- John Jenkins - Canto LXXXI
- Ben Jonson - 17th century English poet. - The line "Or Swansdown ever" from his Have you seen but a whyte Lilie grow is also quoted in his 1918 essay The Hard and Soft in French Poetry. - Canto LXXIV.
- James Joyce - Canto LXXIV, LXXVII
- Julia Domna - Wife of Septimius Severus - Canto XCIV
- Justinian code – Canto LXXXVII: Viewed as imperfect - Cantos C, CXVI
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