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Dear Stephen,

I was rather hoping you'll take this intellectual bait - thank you so  
much for this answer, which I will forward to the person who requested  
it from the society.
Personally, I feel very encouraged by this: no one has asked a  
question for a very long time. I was missing it, to be honest.

Thank you again,
Roxana


Quoting Stephen J Adams <[log in to unmask]> on Sat, 27 Sep 2014 11:11:35 -0400:

> Dear Roxana Preda:
>
> Since no one else has taken the bait, I'll bite. There was some  
> critical dialogue about this question many years ago, but the best  
> place to look is a note in Paideuma by Eva Hesse, "Raymonde  
> Collignon, or the Duck That Got Away," Pd 10 (Winter 1981): 583-84.  
> There she prints a personal 1953 letter from Pound that makes the ID  
> pretty conclusive. The real question is whether it matters -- to the  
> poem, that is. I think it doesn't.
>
> But for the curious, there's sufficient information about Raymonde  
> Collignon in Ezra Pound and Music, and the correspondence at the  
> Beinecke indicates an enduring friendship. Pound probably first  
> heard music by Lawes (Henry and/or his brother William) during an  
> early visit with Dolmetsch. He often persuaded singer friends to  
> sing music for him privately that was not performed in public.  
> Insight into this habit can be found in an item missed by all of  
> EP's biographers, a chapter in Grace Lovat Fraser's memoir In the  
> Days of My Youth (London: Cassell, 1970), where she describes his  
> efforts to get her to sing early music.
>
> Stephen Adams
>
> On 09/26/14, Roxana Preda  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> ----- Original Message Ezra Pound Society: Who was she "that sang  
>> me once that song of Lawes"?.eml -----
>>
>> Subject: Ezra Pound Society: Who was she "that sang me once that  
>> song of Lawes"?
>> From: Ezra Pound Society <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:24:18 -0500
>> To: [log in to unmask]
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>>
>> This is an enquiry email via http://ezrapoundsociety.org/ from:
>> Jacob Baltuch <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> Greetings:
>>
>> The "Envoi" ("H. S. Mauberley") mentions a woman "that sang me once  
>> that song of Lawes".
>>
>> Was this woman a real person and if so who was she?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jacob
>>
>>
>>
> --
> Stephen J. Adams
> Department of English
> University of Western Ontario
> "Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness,  
> consideration andcooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of  
> eternal peace."  --Dwight D. Eisenhower
>
> "Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;  
> therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or  
> beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of  
> history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however  
> virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by  
> love."
>  – Reinhold Niebuhr
>
>



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