Although Patrick Michael from the Cato Institute says religious leaders and movies have only a short lived influence, World Watch disagrees.

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Pound goes to work on Yeats, goes to work on his poetry and helps modernize him, although I think in lots of ways the influence went just as much the other way.

庞德转而研究叶芝和他的诗,并帮助他往现代主义转变，尽管我认为在很多方面,是叶芝影响了庞德。

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