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At 12:51 PM -0700 10/13/00, A. David Moody wrote:
>I'd be very grateful for an identification of  "a fellow named Poole [who]
>did a book on composition" some time before 1908.  The context is visual
>art.  Pound indicates in his Paris Review interview that he learnt something
>from this book before he left America.  Can anyone identify the book?  The
>Library of Congress Catologue (original series) doesn't help.
>
>David Moody

Dear David Moody: A search on WorldCat, under Poole, yields a good
possibility. About 30 titles by A.F. Poole, dates roughly 1885-19something.
He was evidently a cartographer, doing a series called "A Birds Eye View
of...." One is of the town of Rockland, Plymouth County Mass, 1881. Others
of Franconia NH, etc. I'd guess these were perspective drawings from above,
like the balloon views of Paris popular around that time. Pound always
tracking the periplum, etc.
        If you can't get to the list anywhere, I could copy it & send it
over. best, Sylvester

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