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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