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Re: Penny Frye Pound Foolish
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Mark <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:49:16 -0800
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>Dear All,
>
>        Here's yet another reference to Pound in Northrop Frye's book on Eliot
>that I would be grateful for a lead on:
>
>        "As Ezra Pound says, poetry provides equations, like mathematics, but
>equations for emotions."
>
>Many thanks for any help,
>
>        Jeffery Donaldson
 
I don't have the book on hand,but I seem to remember
that the line appears in EP's The Spirit of Romance--
his first prose book, 1909.
 
 
mark
 
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