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