Carroll,

Yes Canto LXXXIII. Page 548.

The line read "as indeed he had, and perdurable"

<And (stretching my memory a bit more)
isn't there somewhere on the same page a phrase (in either Latin or
English or both) about making it from a mouthful of air?> 

Yes again but not quite----"a great peacock aere perennius" or '...more lasting than bronze' perhaps.

By bullying, I meant the new 'sissy' online standard of the term.

CP



Carrol Cox wrote:
> Alphaville Books wrote:
>   
>> Yes, oddly Pound, when he was Yeat's secretary, parrots and disparages
>> Yeat's reading in one of the Pisan Cantos.  He mocks Yeats poem 'The
>> Peacock'. "Uncle William/ downstairs composing/That had made a great
>> Peeeeacock/in the proide ov his oiye". What a bully that Pound was.CP
>>     
>
> My eyes are shot, and my reading equipment (projecting text on a screen)
> is no good for browsing, so I'm not going to try to locate this but
> write from memory.
>
> Doesn't this passage have a parentesis something like (and perdurable he
> had) -- something to that effect? And (stretching my memory a bit more)
> isn't there somewhere on the same page a phrase (in either Latin or
> English or both) about making it from a mouthful of air? Anyhow, the
> passage never struck me as bullying, though writing from Pisa there is a
> certain distance that gives a slightly sardonic twist to the remembered
> incidents.
>
> Carrol
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