Ezrapound

Music was integral to the mental workings of poet Ezra Pound, who habitually hummed a tuneless warble (like the yowling of a bass Siamese cat) while he worked at his typewriter. His efforts in actual practice of music came from his barbarian self-confidence. William Carlos Williams remembered the musically illiterate young Pound setting Liszt scores before himself at the piano and "letting fly." He said: "anything resulted except music." Pound's 1914 meeting with Arnold Dolmetsch later got him interested in early music, mostly monophonic medieval song. He ordered a clavichord ...