apologies for reposting Rick Seddon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Seddon" <[log in to unmask]> To: "- Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine" <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 6:10 AM 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 >