It briefly introduces Pound's musical settings of texts of Villon, Cavalcanti, Sordello, and Catullus in two complete operas and one unfinished one reviews Pound's use of music as a form of criticism and investigates how Pound uses the voice to model his ideas about time, genius, and the continuity of poetic influence.
This essay proposes a link between Ezra Pound's recovery of voices of the past and his recondite theory of great bass.