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Pound and Yeats
Alphaville Books <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:28:28 -0500
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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

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