[New-Poetry] Toads

[Mccall, Steven NAVAIR]

Keats also mentions toads in his essay "The Philosophy of Shelley's
Poetry" as follows:

"In "Prometheus Unbound" he sees, as in the ecstasy of a saint, the
ships moving among the seas of the world without fear of danger

 	              by the light
Of wave-reflected flowers, and floating odours,
And music soft, 	 

and poison dying out of green things, and cruelty out of all living
things, and even the toads and efts [newts] becoming beautiful, and at
last Time being borne "to his tomb in eternity.""

Not a very sexy quote.


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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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