There is a direct connection between Pound's theory of harmony and his own prosodics. I wrote an Agenda article on this many years ago. I don't think Shafer gets into it at all. ==Dan At 05:11 PM 03/27/2002 +0000, you wrote: >Thank you all for your leads and advice, they have been pursued and >digested, respectively. > > >>--- Paul Rowland <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm writing a collection of poems 'based' on >> > Mahler's nearly-10 symphonies. >> > One of my colleagues has a vague recollection of a >> > poem, or sequence, by an >> > American poet based on a Mahler symphony. Surname >> > beginning with 'G' >> > perhaps. Ring any bells? >> > >> > Also, I am writing a paper on 'What Pound got from >> > music', following up my >> > own interest in the use a poet can make of music in >> > his work. Can you point >> > me in the direction of any articles or essays or >> > books that may be of >> > interest? I've read Schafer, Michael Ingham, Xiros >> > Cooper, Noel Stock, >> > Kenner. >> > >> > Do you have an original insight as to what Pound got >> > from music? I have left >> > this question purposely ill-defined. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Paul Rowland. > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Dan Pearlman's home page: http://pages.zdnet.com/danpearl/danpearlman/ My new fiction collection, THE BEST-KNOWN MAN IN THE WORLD AND OTHER MISFITS, may be ordered online at http://www.aardwolfpress.com/ "Perfectly-crafted gems": Jack Dann, Nebula & World Fantasy Award winner Director, Council for the Literature of the Fantastic: http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/ OFFICE: Department of English University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 Tel.: 401 874-4659 Fax: (253) 681-8518 email: [log in to unmask]