Dear Stephen, I was rather hoping you'll take this intellectual bait - thank you so much for this answer, which I will forward to the person who requested it from the society. Personally, I feel very encouraged by this: no one has asked a question for a very long time. I was missing it, to be honest. Thank you again, Roxana Quoting Stephen J Adams <[log in to unmask]> on Sat, 27 Sep 2014 11:11:35 -0400: > 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 > > On 09/26/14, Roxana Preda <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> >> -- >> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message Ezra Pound Society: Who was she "that sang >> me once that song of Lawes"?.eml ----- >> >> Subject: Ezra Pound Society: Who was she "that sang me once that >> song of Lawes"? >> From: Ezra Pound Society <[log in to unmask]> >> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:24:18 -0500 >> To: [log in to unmask] >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> > -- > Stephen J. Adams > Department of English > University of Western Ontario > "Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, > consideration andcooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of > eternal peace." --Dwight D. Eisenhower > > "Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; > therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or > beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of > history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however > virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by > love." > – Reinhold Niebuhr > > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.