There is a direct connection between Pound's theory of harmony
and his own prosodics. I wrote an Agenda article on this many
years ago. I don't think Shafer gets into it at all.
==Dan
At 05:11 PM 03/27/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Thank you all for your leads and advice, they have been pursued and
>digested, respectively.
>
>
>>--- Paul Rowland <[log in to unmask]> 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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