Yeats, in his A Vision quotes Empedocles speaking of the vortex (p.67) Also
Heraclitus is quoted, both of which seem to be the basis or the explication
of the myth that Zeus went back into time and swallowed everything thus
creating a link between his godself and all else. This can be found
mentioned in both the W.B. Yeats book mentioned and Roberto Calasso's The
Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, which was published by Alfred Knopf (New
York) in 1993. I cannot tell the exact page. Yeats mentions in the same
chapter as above that "His head, as a youth, was full of Blake..." Also,
although I have yet to read the book via the index of This Difficult
Individual: Ezra Pound by Eustace Mullins mentions Pound attending Yeats'
salon where the walls were hung with Blake engravings.
Regards,
N. Scott Reynolds
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From: Antje Pfannkuchen <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 21, 1999 6:04 PM
Subject: Plotinus from A Lume Spento
 
 
> Hi,
>
> I'd be interested if there is any detailed reading of Pounds poem
> 'Plotinus' around. He obviously wrote it in 1905 and published it in 'A
> Lume Spento' and as far as I know it is the first occasionn, where he uses
> the word 'vortex'. Does anyone know, what kind of literature he was
reading
> at the time he wrote the poem?
>
> Best
>
> Antje Pfannkuchen