Passion for literature does not know any limits among knowledge fields.
That is incredible today!!

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Da: Societies for the History of Economics [[log in to unmask]] per conto di Anthony Waterman [[log in to unmask]]
Inviato: giovedì 21 giugno 2012 20.26
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Oggetto: Re: [SHOE] allusion to Pareto

Auden and Harrod knew one another and their (Oxonian)  social circles somewhat overlapped.

Anthony Waterman



On 21/06/2012 10:42 AM, Paul Dudenhefer wrote:
For what it's worth, I was reading the English poet W. H. Auden the other night and was astonished to come across a reference to Pareto. It occurs in Auden's long poem, Letter to Lord Byron (1937):


But if in highbrow circles he would sally

    It’s just as well to warn him there’s no stain on

Picasso, all-in wrestling, or the Ballet.

    Sibelius is the man. To get a pain on

    Listening to Elgar is a sine qua non.

A second-hand acquaintance of Pareto’s

Ranks higher than an intimate of Plato’s.

I take it the "he" is Byron, although that's not entirely clear.

Paul




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