Where did Perloff's essay appear, and what is it called, please? wayne Simon DeDeo wrote: > Pound would perhaps not have been as interested in > such questions as, say, Yeats or, better, Khlebnikov; > I've just finished an excellent essay by Perloff on > the role of numerology in Modernism, and the question > of translating from a "sacred" text seems to merge > theory and praxis in interesting ways. Any evidence > that Pound concerned himself with such things? Even > with as free a translation as his Seafarer, it would > be possible to retain some numerological properties > of the original text, although, the Seafarer being a > secular work, he probably wouldn't have bothered in > that particular case. > > -- Simon DeDeo > > http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~sdedeo/localpapers.html > [log in to unmask] > [log in to unmask] > [log in to unmask]