Burt and Margaret

Upon re-reading my note to Burt I noticed a rather glaring mistake.  I say
that Pound in the "Pitch" section of the "Osiris" essays does not refer to
vowels at all.  This is wrong.

Pound says, page 39 of "Literary Essays",

"What I want to get at is this: in the interpreting of the hidden melody of
poetry into the more manifest melody of music, are there in the words
themselves *tone leadings*".

He follows the above later in the paragraph with this.

"Does, for instance, the voice really fall a little in speaking a vowel and
a nasal".  He then goes on to get specific with example words.

Pound's context for all this is not really the crafting of verse but music
and verse as an art together.  The idea of "tone leading" is directly
borrowed from music.   Duncan's context of the phrase is apparently as a
tool for the direct crafting of verse.

Rick Seddon
McIntosh, NM