Randolph said of Yeats,
>One of my students, when I used to teach lit, compared him to a
>sheep.
I've heard this, and he does indeed sound like a sheep. Before he
reads the poem he says that he reads as he does because poetry
is "very important" and its importance must be communicated to
the world. Or something to that effect.
Interestingly, Pound often sounds very much like sheep, too, or a
ram, and this is no doubt because Yeats was his hero before
Mussolini.
Kent
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