Nice try, Rick, but you’ll not gammon me with your casuistries and false
analogies. Eliot and Pound? “A mountebank and his zany.” Yeats was the
real thing, and he saw through these poseurs. “Was there ever dog that
praised his fleas?”
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Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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