[New-Poetry] Toads

[Bob Grumman]

  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.


  I could easily be wrong, but note that Moore puts the toads passage in quotes.

  --Bob G.
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