Paraphrase of something Pound wrote:

Poetry begins to rot when it strays too far from music, and music begins to
rot when it strays too far from dance.

Tim Romano

At 02:09 PM 3/26/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm writing a collection of poems 'based' on Mahler's nearly-10 symphonies.
>One of my colleagues has a vague recollection of a poem, or sequence, by an
>American poet based on a Mahler symphony. Surname beginning with 'G'
>perhaps. Ring any bells?
>
>Also, I am writing a paper on 'What Pound got from music', following up my
>own interest in the use a poet can make of music in his work. Can you point
>me in the direction of any articles or essays or books that may be of
>interest? I've read Schafer, Michael Ingham, Xiros Cooper, Noel Stock,
>Kenner.
>
>Do you have an original insight as to what Pound got from music? I have left
>this question purposely ill-defined.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Paul Rowland.
>
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