Nancy may have it. On the net I see a date of 1930 given for
this statement.


Nancy Gish wrote:
>
> Maybe the Criterion, January 1930.

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> Anyone know the source of this excerpt?
>
> "I myself owe Mr Symons a great debt; but for having read his
> book I should not, in the year 1908, have heard of Laforgue or
> Rimbaud; I should probably not have begun to read Verlaine;
> and but for reading Verlaine, I should not have heard of
> Corbière. So the Symons book is one of those which have
> affected the course of my life." - T.S.Eliot