A bone for Mr. Usher:

ABC of Reading, chapter 4, section 3 "Compass, Sextant, or Land Marks" :

         "Years ago a musician said to me: 'But isn't there a place where
you can get it all [meaning all of poetry] as in Bach?'
         There isn't. I believe if a man will really learn Greek he can get
nearly 'all of it' in Homer."

Tim Romano


At 07:32 PM 6/19/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Burt (if I may):
>
>I'm desperate to (re)locate a quotation I came across once, in Pound's
>correspondence I think, in which EP says that you can find everything about
>poetry in Homer in the same way that one can find everything about music in
>Bach, or something to the effect. Do you perchace know this quip? If not,
>is it possible to submit it to the e-discussion list? I'd be eternally
>grateful (having just spent three hours pawing through places I thought it
>might lurk). It's for a book I'm writing on Homer.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Mark Usher
>
>M. D. Usher
>The University of Vermont
>Department of Classics
>481 Main Street
>Burlington, Vermont 05405
>Telephone: (802) 656-4431