[New-Poetry] Yeats, Bircumshaw, Sphinx

[Robin]

From: "Roger Day" <rog3r.day at gmail.com>

> OK, you've got my interest piqued.
>
> Aleister Crowley seems to me to be a burlesque bryron, a parody of all
> the adventurer poets, a small-time comic who tried to make it big  ...

Yup.

It's a small thing, I know, but what I find most difficult to forgive is
Crowley's hijacking of the motto of Rabelais' Abbey of Thelema for his
fatuous nonsense.

Two writers more difficult to associate than Rabelais and Crowley it's
difficult to imagine, but someone on wikipedia seems to take this seriously.

I think Sir Francis Dashwood and the Hellfire Club were stirred into the mix
somewhere, but as by that point I wasn't paying too much attention, I may be
wrong.

                :-(

Robin