> inability to
> distinguish between rhetorical registers

Jonathan,
Do you mean his own rhetorical registers or those of others, or both?
An obvious analogue: Beethoven's deafness.
Tim Romano


Jonathan Gill wrote:

> This is all in service of a new and fanciful notion that Pound's
> figurative (and literal?) "deaf spot" helps account for his inability to
> distinguish between rhetorical registers starting in the mid-1930s.
>