Thank you very much. Just the thing.

RE

>From: sam grolmes <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Beardsley
>Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:48:25 -0700
>
>Yeats reports this comment in his Autobiography, The Trembling of the
>Veil (1922), Book IV, The Tragic Generation,
>
>"I see his [Beardsley] with more understanding now, than when he lived,
>for in 1895 or 1896, I was in despair at the new breath of comedy that
>had begun to wither the beauty that I loved, just when the beauty seem
>to have united itself to mystery. I said to him once, 'You have never
>done anything to equal your Salome with the head of John the Baptist.' I
>think, for the moment he was sincere when he replied, 'Yes, yes; but
>beauty is so difficult.' It was for the moment only, for as the popular
>rage increased and his own disease increased, he became more and more
>violent in his satire, or created out of a spirit of mockery a form of
>beauty where his powerful logical intellect eliminated every outline
>that suggested meditation or even satisfied passion."
>
>Although this does not identify the comment as having passed from Yeats
>to Pound. Oddly enough, there is not a single reference to Pound in "The
>Autobiography of William Butler Yeats," a fact that has always puzzled
>me.
>
>Sam Grolmes

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