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Richard,
Again not an answer, but a plausible explanation (?) of the transmission of
the Beardsley story:
In ABC of Reading we find:
... The gulf between Homer and Virgil can be
illustrated profanely by one of Yeats' favourite anecdotes.
A plain sailor man took a notion to study Latin, and his
teacher tried him with Virgil; after many lessons he asked
him something about the hero.
Said the sailor: 'What hero?'
Said the teacher: 'What hero, why, Aeneas, the hero.'
Said the sailor: 'Ach, a hero, him, a hero? Bigob, I
t'ought he waz a priest.'
Tim Romano
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> Beauty is difficult, Yeats, sd Mr Beardsley
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> What were Yeats and Beardsley talking about, and how did Pound come to
know
> of their conversation?
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