05-11-2014, 02:42 AM
I have not checked in a real book, but the Internet provides a slightly different quotation, from Hamlet, than that mentioned above, and repeated in the reference to Pound in the link.
165
170
''HORATIO
So have I heard and do in part believe it.
But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.''
As interesting and radical as was the meeting between three young men in a café off the Tottenham Court Rd, in 1909, joined a week or so later by the domineering Pound, the words chosen 'present' and 'describe' do not strike me as very apt. Nor, for that matter does the point seem worth labouring. But then I don't care for Pound; perhaps the light-bulb will come on before I pay in my checks.
165
170
''HORATIO
So have I heard and do in part believe it.
But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.''
As interesting and radical as was the meeting between three young men in a café off the Tottenham Court Rd, in 1909, joined a week or so later by the domineering Pound, the words chosen 'present' and 'describe' do not strike me as very apt. Nor, for that matter does the point seem worth labouring. But then I don't care for Pound; perhaps the light-bulb will come on before I pay in my checks.