Dear Simon De Leo:
        I'm sorry I can't recall all the sources you ask for, but Pound's
letter to his father, explaining his ideas about the organization of the
Cantos appears in the Letters ed. D. D. Paige, p. 210-11. As for the
frescoes in the Palazzo Schifanoia, I describe this in Chapter 4, "Form
and Language," of my book, Language in Modern LIterature,(1979) where
 the Cantos are included in a general discussion of modernist conceptions
of form.See especially pages 132-136. Guy Davenport has written at length
about the Ferrara frescoes
                                        With best wishes,
                                                Jacob Korg
 
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Simon DeDeo wrote:
 
> Jacob --
>
> You wrote:
> >               But he did seem to have begun with some ideas about
> >fugal form and the pattern of the Del Cossa frescoes, as in an early
> >letter to his father.
>
> Do you have a reference for this? In particular, I am interested by
> the idea that Pound may have had notions of the fugue when first
> thinking about setting down the Cantos.. When did he write this letter?
>
> -- Simon
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