[New-Poetry] Toads

[David Graham]

On Jul 2, 2007, at 2:46 PM, Bob Grumman wrote:
> The toads are a quotation from a Yeats essay, actually, and I once  
> read it in the essay of its origin, but never was able to find it  
> again.
>
> --Bob G.
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I'm skeptical.  The phrase "literalists of the imagination" Moore  
ascribes to Yeats, but not the toads.  She was typically very  
scrupulous about acknowledging her borrowings.

The Yeats is from *Ideas of Good and Evil*:  "The limitation of his  
view was from the very intensity of his vision; he was a too literal  
realist of imagination, as others are of nature...."  He's discussing  
Blake's illustrations of Dante.



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