Thanks to Rebecca Beasley, Archie Henderson and Sylvester Pollett.
Also to Antony Ozturk.  The identification of "Poole" as Henry Rankin Poore,
and the book as "Pictorial Composition" seems our best guess.  (A minor
detail: Rebecca Beasley gives the publisher of the 1903 6th revised ed. as
Baker and Taylor of New York, while Archie Henderson gives G.P.Putnam's
Sons, 1903, but that's easily checked out.)   I had wondered if the book
could possibly have been Arthur Wesley Dow's "Composition: A Series of
Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers" (1899 and
many later editions).  There would be intriguing connections with Fenollosa
and with Georgia O'Keeffe.  But it is unlikely that Pound's verbal memory
would have slipped from "Dow" to "Poole", while "Poole" for "Poore" could be
a simple mis-hearing by the interviewer Donald Hall.   Thanks to all for
providing a probability to fill the vacuum in which speculation would
flourish.

David Moody



----- Original Message -----
From: sylvester pollet <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: "a fellow named Poole"


> At 12:07 AM -0500 10/14/00, Archie Henderson wrote:
> >Could the book in question be _Pictorial composition and the critical
> >judgment of pictures;a handbook for students and lovers of art_, by H. R.
> >Poore, A.N.A. (New York, and London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903)?
> >
> >Archie Henderson
>
> That sounds convincing--I was wondering whether it might have been a
> texbook EP encountered in some  college course. Sylvester
>