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- Title
A SOURCE FOR YEATS'S `TERRIBLE BEAUTY'.
- Authors
Foley, T. P.
- Abstract
The article reports that in a letter to the Times Literary Supplement on 28 November 1968 D. H. McMullan suggested a source for Yeats's phrase a terrible beauty is born' in one of O. Henry's stories, "A Fog in Santone." The momentous sentence reads: "His face is wax, and an awful pulchritude is born of the menacing flame in his cheeks." In reply, Austin Clarke suggested a source in a poem by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
- Subjects
CLARKE, Austin, 1896-1974; HENRY, O., 1862-1910; MCMULLAN, D. H.; POETRY (Literary form); SHORT story (Literary form); PERSONAL beauty; AESTHETICS
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1984, Vol 31, Issue 4, p509
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/31-4-509a