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Dear Alison In certain moods, Yeats is less interesting than Ian Thorpe. In Doug's post, the principal enthusiasm attached to the swimming, though the subject title was as above. There's an excellent poem in the just printed BREAD by Philip Hammial (Black Pepper 2000) called "Howard's Face" - watching the PM admiring our swimmers, I thoughtof Hammial's excellent lines describing said face. One felt sorry for the swimmers who had caused such facial despicability. Unlike many, I prefer much earlier Yeats (partly for the Blue politics of Later Yeats), my completed second collection includes an imitation/parody of the early decadent Yeats piece, "John Kinsella's Lament for Miss Mary Moore" - which is a fine Yeats lament for (to use 1890's parlance) a lady of easy virtue/ a whore. Sydney poet Laurie Duggan dislikes all Yeats, and that too is an interesting position. What was that you were saying about a 'pained protest'? Sunday's are for worship aren't they, it's not a day where correct weight or correct writing should be paid too much attention in my view. Yours worshipfully Hugh Tolhurst ----- Original Message ----- From: <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 10:27 AM Subject: Re: Finneran's Yeats > >Yes later Yeats is less interesting than > >swimming. > > !!!! > > Is all I can say. > > With all respect to Ian Thorpe, the later Yeats is fabulous: the harshest > and the best. The Circus Animals Desertion is one of the greatest poems > of all time. > > A > > > > > > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%