In message <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] writes
>Was playing Pound reading Usura to a class of the French yesterday, and
>listening to him roll his "rr"s, partly, it seems, as an aid to timing.
>Someone asked about this and I remarked how Pound seemed to have a bit of the
>Yeats style in his reading -- not regarding the "rr"s I mean the general use
>of taut intonation - and his British colleague Basil Bunting had, so to speak,
>fallen on his rrs: that is, picked up a bit of Pound's reading habits in turn,
>including something of the intonation and also that tendency to make the "r"
>into a tiny duration effect. So I imitated "Braag sweet tenorrr bull" for
>them.
>
Earlier recordings of Pound sound very Yeatsian to me - painfully so -
or was it more a case of a widely accepted & expected 'recitation' style
fashionable earlier this century & now thankfully not so? The "rr"s,
though, later in Usura etc, are possibly an Italian influence?
--
Alan Halsey
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