Nancy

I really like the idea of referring to "modernisms" instead of bagging
"modernists".  It gives the flexibility of definition that these
"individualists" demand.

In a prior post.  I had referred to Yeats as a mystic.  I  thought you had
objected to Yeats as a mystic and did not want to appear to be ignoring your
objection.  A question;  mysticism is not necessarily occultism is it?  I
think of early Yeats as mystical and later Yeats as an occultist.  Am I far
off track?  (I guess I should have said "as practicing  mysticisms" :>) )

Did not TSE and several of the other practioners of modernisms look at
occultism as a non-modernism?   What modernisms did Yeats practice?  For
example Pound specifically denied that Yeats was an Imagist.  Are you saying
that symbolism is a modernism?  Didn't  symbolism's view of reality differ
markedly from the multi layer experience based reality that the practioners
of  modernisms generally advocate.

Rick Seddon
McIntosh, NM, USA
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From: Nancy Gish <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: Yeats and personal life.


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