----- Forwarded message from [log in to unmask] ----- Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:59:53 +0200 From: Jacob Baltuch <[log in to unmask]> Subject: RE: Ezra Pound Society: Who was she "that sang me once that song of Lawes"? To: Roxana Preda <[log in to unmask]> Dear Roxana, Thank you for your help and please thank Stephen Adams for me. Cheers,Jacob > Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:32:27 +0100 > From: [log in to unmask] > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Ezra Pound Society: Who was she "that sang me once that > song of Lawes"? > > Dear Jacob, > > Please find the answer to your question below. Trust Stephen Adams to > know a thing like this! > > Cordially, > Roxana Preda > Ezra Pound Society > > > Dear Roxana Preda: > > Since no one else has taken the bait, I'll bite. There was some > critical dialogue about this question many years ago, but the best > place to look is a note in Paideuma by Eva Hesse, "Raymonde Collignon, > or the Duck That Got Away," Pd 10 (Winter 1981): 583-84. There she > prints a personal 1953 letter from Pound that makes the ID pretty > conclusive. The real question is whether it matters -- to the poem, > that is. I think it doesn't. > > But for the curious, there's sufficient information about Raymonde > Collignon in Ezra Pound and Music, and the correspondence at the > Beinecke indicates an enduring friendship. Pound probably first heard > music by Lawes (Henry and/or his brother William) during an early > visit with Dolmetsch. He often persuaded singer friends to sing music > for him privately that was not performed in public. Insight into this > habit can be found in an item missed by all of EP's biographers, a > chapter in Grace Lovat Fraser's memoir In the Days of My Youth > (London: Cassell, 1970), where she describes his efforts to get her to > sing early music. > > Stephen Adams > > Quoting Ezra Pound Society <[log in to unmask]> on Fri, 26 Sep 2014 > 11:24:18 -0500: > > > This is an enquiry email via http://ezrapoundsociety.org/ from: > > Jacob Baltuch <[log in to unmask]> > > > > Greetings: > > > > The "Envoi" ("H. S. Mauberley") mentions a woman "that sang me once > > that song of Lawes". > > > > Was this woman a real person and if so who was she? > > > > Thanks > > Jacob > > > > > > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.