Apologies for reposting.

Rick Seddon

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Subject: Re: Pound/Duncan


> Margaret
>
> Thanks very much for the additional information.  As I indicated in my
note
> to Burt, "tone leading of vowels" seems to have been a seminal idea of
> Pound's which Duncan then developed for his own poetry.  If I can find any
> further hard info I will share it of course.
>
> Rick Seddon
> McIntosh, NM
>
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> From: "Fisher and Hughes" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 12:47 AM
> Subject: Re: Pound/Duncan
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> > Dear Richard and Burt,
> > The tone leading of the vowels may mean no more than the comment at the
> > end of ABC of Reading regarding paying attention to the sequence of
> > vowels. But also see a series of 3 drafts for the unpublished undated
> > essay "Song" in the Beinecke archive, in which Pound, writing about
> > setting words to music, refers to the "timbre" of the words and his use
> > of them. In EP's Radio Operas, pp 156-7, I introduce the definition of
> > melopoeia from the first and second drafts of this essay because of the
> > focus on the crafting of sound: "Pound clarified melopoeia as dependent
> > on 'the actual beat, rhythm, and timbre of [the] words for the emotional
> > effect of [the] work.' Because this type of lyric poem was made to be
> > 'delivered with varying pitch,' he called it 'cantabile' to distinguish
> > it from poems intended to be spoken or half-chanted, and noted that the
> > word sounds would be joined quite differently for melopoeia cantabile
> > than for all other types of poetry."  [single quotes are from Song by
EP]
> > Best wishes,
> > Margaret
> >
>