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Sender: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:53:16 +0000
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On 30 Dec 2008, at 17:48, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> both have the style of a bard in a meadhall or a druid chanting a  
> spell

yes

seems to me if one is reading out loud one's voice must have a quality  
- and that quality is best to be a natural affectation - but it is a  
choice

WCW looks nice on the page but sounds limp when he reads

when Stein reads she brightens what is on the page

i once got myself dissed on the near defunct UC Davis Stein list for  
suggesting that she Henry James and WC Fields all shared a sense of  
juicy delivery

i never read the Cantos - perfect time to start

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