Far be it for this list to find a "largely mystery" anywhere. Someone might have added Christ and Mussolini to the list. And Pound himself probably came damn close although this list seems to manage the ritual on a regular basis. Charles ---------- >From: Burt Hatlen <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: the yearly slain >Date: Sat, Aug 16, 2003, 9:10 PM > > Of course, Tim is right, and I was creating a false problem: the "you" of > "Canzon: The Yearly Slain" is obviously Manning--Pound tells us in a > headnote that the poem was written in response to a poem by Manning, and I > should have taken this > statement as the answer to my question. I guess that I was intrigued by > the wider implications of the "yearly slain"--not only Kore, but also > Adonis and Osiris--and wanted to find a largely mystery here. > > Burt Hatlen > > [log in to unmask]> writes: >>Frederic Manning maybe. >>Tim Romano >> >>At 01:20 PM 8/14/03, Burt Hatlen wrote: >>>Listers, >>> >>>Here'a a question, born out of something a little more than idle >>>curiosity: In the first poem of Canzoni, "Canzon: The Yearly Slain," EP's >>>envoy reads as follows: "Be sped, my Canzon, through the bitter air! / To >>>him who speaketh words as fair as >>>these, / Say that I also know nthe "Yearly Slain" (CEP 134). Who is the >>>fellow-poet, that EP sees as the destined audience of his canzon? I've >>>checked Jackson, Witemeyer, and Grieve, but haven't found an answer in >>>their books on the early poetry. >>>My best guess is that he's sending the poem to Ovid: see the lines from >>>the Marlowe's translation of the Amores, as quoted in the ABC of Reading: >>>"And brydes from Memnon yeerly shall be slaine." But maybe I'm missing >>>some obvious reference to a >>>classical poet who wrote about the "Yearly Slain"? >>> >>>Burt Hatlen >>> >>> >>>__________ NOD32 1.483 (20030813) Information __________ >>> >>>This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus System. >>>http://www.nod32.com