i seem to remember somewhere bunting and Zukofsky broaching the subject of
telling Pound that his reading style was a little too Yeatsian. Some
recollection of Pound listening to Yeats march about upstairs composing,
when the pixies allowed.
I have heard the idahoan (?) accent, which i wonder whether Pound ever
hadf. No sense of it in the recordings I've heard. Certainly eliot sounds
more english than the english, except at one point in the recording of 4
quartets, oddly
enough when he pronounces "darkness", just that one word has a broad
birmingham accent, something like darkniss. Perhaps the strain of
maintaining that English accent broke him, or some subtle dig at
Birmingham (Burningum as it is locally pronounced).
Funny about the idioms. I was talking to Robert Creeley this weekend and
he said that when in Paris he used to talk to Peggy Guggenheim's son, who
had possibly never been to USA but had a perfect twenties accent including
all the idioms of that era.
Agree with Ric that mister Creeley be on the list of good readers.
I would still like to here Jones read. Did anyone ever hear macDiarmid?
martin
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