Hi,

Yes, thanks. Though isn't that more directly an echo of Virgil or Horace (I
can't remember which)? My half memory was of a (prose?) reference in which
he specifically mentioned Yeats and quoted or paraphrased his line - but
perhaps I've imagined it?

Many thanks
Sean



On Aug 6 2005, CENTRONE wrote:

>"Mouths biting empty air"
>
>In Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, section Mauberley, part II at the end just before
>The Age Demanded
>
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>From: "Sean Pryor" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 9:53 PM
>Subject: Mouthfuls of air
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a vague memory that Pound directly quotes Yeats's line "I made it
>out
>> of a mouthful of air" (from "He thinks of those who have Spoken Evil of
>his
>> Beloved") in his prose somewhere - can anyone point me in the right
>> direction? I know a few possible echoes or allusions in the Cantos
>(81/542:
>> "To have gathered from the air a live tradition"; 83/53: "begotten of
>air";
>> 90/628: "the stone taking form in the air"), but I can't find the direct
>quote.
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Sean
>>
>> (and apologies if it's somewhere blindingly obvious and I've missed it)
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Sean Pryor
>> Trinity College
>> Cambridge
>> CB2 1TQ
>

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