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>I heard an Ezra Pound reading on the radio the other day - turned on and
>didn't know who it was at first - his reading was so High Victorian,
>rolling and declamatory, not at all like much of his poetry which on the
>page seems so deft and askance.
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>Sam
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I think EP learned that reading style from Yeats; they sound very
similar. There are some late recordings of snippets from the Cantos
which are spare and almost hesitant (believe Bunting took credit for
the change, but age and catastrophes might have played their part).
J.
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