I can't answer the question but I can, I think, add to its context.
Pound remarks that he always thought that the introduction of the
"expert observer" (or something like that) had been a narrative
invention of Henry James until he discovered it being used in the
_Odyssey_. Just a fragment of a memory. But the fact that I remember it
suggests that it is contained in either the 1954 (British) edition of
"Literary Essays of Ezra Pound" (Intro by Eliot) or Selected Letters
that were published in the late '50s. But I was reading these works over
40 years ago & can't remember more precisely.

Carrol Cox

Burt Hatlen 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