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To: Neocon who wrote (1417)	11/11/1999 5:50:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

I think Hesse is a "phase" many go through. The influence seems ephemeral. Yeats has staying power. His words still resound. I've only read Steppenwolf, so I can't rightly critique Hesse, but I don't believe his words have the staying power of Yeats. TS Eliot can't be called Yeatsian, but he was influenced by him. What have I derived from Yeats? A lot of brooding for one thing. But a lot of inspiration also. I'll always have the last lines of the Song of Wandering Aengus in my head: And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. What from Hesse sticks in your mind?

To: Neocon who wrote (1417)	11/11/1999 8:02:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

As Joyce is to English fiction, so is Yeats to English poetry... Both so innovative, that is hard to imagine what English fiction & poetry would have been like without these two Irishmen! Thank the Lord they didn't write in Gaelic...:-) I would not say, however, that Yeats was as influential world-wide as Joyce has been.

To: Neocon who wrote (1417)	11/11/1999 9:56:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3246

Neo, it occurs to me that if Hesse is included because he was a point of reference for so many kids in college, shouldn't we include Ayn Rand then? She continues to appeal year after year. Her books are consistent top sellers. It can be argued that her influence is more wide ranging than Hesse's. Alan Greenspan was a member of the Rand inner circle. Speaking personally, when I started reading her I was fairly liberal. By the time I finished The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged it was as if a veil was lifted. I didn't look at the world in quite the same way anymore. She has her detractors, but I know she has affected a lot of people this way.