I'm sorry to be so late in thanking you for this information about the
names in The Alchemist. Is any more specific information available? Did
Pound find these names in any particular source?

On Thu, 18 May 2000, Hideo Nogami wrote:

> I found descriptions in Ruthven (p.32-33)
>
> Sail de Claustra was a twelfth-century Provencal Poetess.
> All the women's names other than this in this poem occur
> fictitiously in the literature of southern Europe.
> Pound is using these names merely for their beautiful sounds.
>
>   Hideo Nogami
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jacob Korg
> > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 6:12 AM
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> > Subject: Re: Enigmatic names in early poems
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> >
> > What are those names in "The Alchemist",Collected Early Poems, p.225,
> > beginning Claustra, Aelis,Azalais.etc.?
> >         And also,What is OM MANI PADME HUM,p.283?
> >         I'd be grateful for enlightenment.
> >
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