Thank you very much. Just the thing. RE >From: sam grolmes <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Beardsley >Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:48:25 -0700 > >Yeats reports this comment in his Autobiography, The Trembling of the >Veil (1922), Book IV, The Tragic Generation, > >"I see his [Beardsley] with more understanding now, than when he lived, >for in 1895 or 1896, I was in despair at the new breath of comedy that >had begun to wither the beauty that I loved, just when the beauty seem >to have united itself to mystery. I said to him once, 'You have never >done anything to equal your Salome with the head of John the Baptist.' I >think, for the moment he was sincere when he replied, 'Yes, yes; but >beauty is so difficult.' It was for the moment only, for as the popular >rage increased and his own disease increased, he became more and more >violent in his satire, or created out of a spirit of mockery a form of >beauty where his powerful logical intellect eliminated every outline >that suggested meditation or even satisfied passion." > >Although this does not identify the comment as having passed from Yeats >to Pound. Oddly enough, there is not a single reference to Pound in "The >Autobiography of William Butler Yeats," a fact that has always puzzled >me. > >Sam Grolmes _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.