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Rick Seddon

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Subject: Re: Pound/Duncan


> Burt and Margaret
>
> Upon re-reading my note to Burt I noticed a rather glaring mistake.  I say
> that Pound in the "Pitch" section of the "Osiris" essays does not refer to
> vowels at all.  This is wrong.
>
> Pound says, page 39 of "Literary Essays",
>
> "What I want to get at is this: in the interpreting of the hidden melody
of
> poetry into the more manifest melody of music, are there in the words
> themselves *tone leadings*".
>
> He follows the above later in the paragraph with this.
>
> "Does, for instance, the voice really fall a little in speaking a vowel
and
> a nasal".  He then goes on to get specific with example words.
>
> Pound's context for all this is not really the crafting of verse but music
> and verse as an art together.  The idea of "tone leading" is directly
> borrowed from music.   Duncan's context of the phrase is apparently as a
> tool for the direct crafting of verse.
>
> Rick Seddon
> McIntosh, NM
>