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Passion and Imagination:Fundamental Agreement • February 1st, 2018
Scholarly accounts of the intellectual and artistic relation between W. B. Yeats and Wyndham Lewis have understandably tended to draw upon, in particular, the revised version of Yeats’s philosophical treatise A Vision (1937). There, in ‘A Packet for Ezra Pound’, Yeats explicitly approves, as Hazard Adams describes it, Lewis’s ‘attack on the modernist obsession with flux’ in Time and Western Man (1927).1 Yeats’s siding with Lewis on this front is illuminated by R. F. Foster’s portrayal of how the ageing Irish poet, recovering in early 1928 from his first major health scare, ‘continued to regain his strength, to send entertaining letters to [Olivia] Shakespear, to cogitate about Wyndham Lewis and their “fundamental agreement” about philosophical matters’.2 This key quotation is drawn from Yeats’s letter to Shakespear dated 29 November 1927: ‘I am reading Time and tke Western Man [sic] with ever growing admiration and envy – what energy! – and I am driven back to my reed-pipe. I want you
