Thank you very much for this reference and the quotation.

Richard Edwards

>From: Hideo Nogami <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
>    <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Beardsley
>Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 01:51:24 +0900
>
>That Pound wrote on the Beardsley-Yeats episode in Cantos was not
>in my memory. I could only remember he said on Beardsley in the radio
>speach.
>The radio speach No.52(July 6, 1942), " Continuity" , is very interesting
>to
>know
>Pound's thought on Modern art.
>In this radio speach, Pound is recorded to have spoken, "Health is More
>interesting than disease. Health is TOTAL. Beauty is More interesting than
>distortion." Essentially, he saw Beardsley as "a sick man."
>Chronologically, radio speach is the first, and the Cantos 80 which was
>written in the detention camp is the second.
>
>Hideo Nogami

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