Where did Perloff's essay appear, and what is it called, please?
 
wayne
 
Simon DeDeo wrote:
 
> Pound would perhaps not have been as interested in
> such questions as, say, Yeats or, better, Khlebnikov;
> I've just finished an excellent essay by Perloff on
> the role of numerology in Modernism, and the question
> of translating from a "sacred" text seems to merge
> theory and praxis in interesting ways. Any evidence
> that Pound concerned himself with such things? Even
> with as free a translation as his Seafarer, it would
> be possible to retain some numerological properties
> of the original text, although, the Seafarer being a
> secular work, he probably wouldn't have bothered in
> that particular case.
>
> -- Simon DeDeo
>
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