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Re: A new question on a "centonial" Quilty
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Michael Strickland brought us an astounding list of literary allusions
in "Lolita" and a wealth of insights and details that also helps us to
locate similar references in VN's other works ( such as Lou?Chanson de
Bilitis" with its links with Sappho and Lesbos in "ADA", or
quills-aiguille in "Transparent Things" - and so on).
Nevertheless, it was not my intention to suggest a joint effort to weave
something like a "Nabokov's Quilt: Lolita as Patchwork". My
"cento-centonian" suggestion, as inspired by the poet Manuel Bandeira's
brief poem named "Anthology", i.e, by his "florilege": a collection of
flowers he'd picked from his own garden. I saw it as a kind of poetic
statement and as a refinement of his poetic aims.
T.S.Eliot achieved his poems while building up several "poetic
fragments". He also noted that when we are looking for an original trait
in any poet "we shall often find that not only the best, but the most
individual parts of his world may be those in which the dead poets, his
ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously". ( "Tradition and
the Individual Talent", in The Sacred Wood. Essays on Poetry and
Criticism, Methuen & Co., London, 1920, following Ivan Junqueira's
article on "Eliot and the Poetics of the Fragment".)
And yet we are also familiar with what VN himself wrote about Eliot's
poetry and therefore I suppose we'd have to go a step further than
a"patchwork", if we want to understand VN's intentions.
Anyway, I can only thank Michael Strickland for the honor of having
offered us his amazingly rich research after my "centonian" posting.
Jansy
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in "Lolita" and a wealth of insights and details that also helps us to
locate similar references in VN's other works ( such as Lou?Chanson de
Bilitis" with its links with Sappho and Lesbos in "ADA", or
quills-aiguille in "Transparent Things" - and so on).
Nevertheless, it was not my intention to suggest a joint effort to weave
something like a "Nabokov's Quilt: Lolita as Patchwork". My
"cento-centonian" suggestion, as inspired by the poet Manuel Bandeira's
brief poem named "Anthology", i.e, by his "florilege": a collection of
flowers he'd picked from his own garden. I saw it as a kind of poetic
statement and as a refinement of his poetic aims.
T.S.Eliot achieved his poems while building up several "poetic
fragments". He also noted that when we are looking for an original trait
in any poet "we shall often find that not only the best, but the most
individual parts of his world may be those in which the dead poets, his
ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously". ( "Tradition and
the Individual Talent", in The Sacred Wood. Essays on Poetry and
Criticism, Methuen & Co., London, 1920, following Ivan Junqueira's
article on "Eliot and the Poetics of the Fragment".)
And yet we are also familiar with what VN himself wrote about Eliot's
poetry and therefore I suppose we'd have to go a step further than
a"patchwork", if we want to understand VN's intentions.
Anyway, I can only thank Michael Strickland for the honor of having
offered us his amazingly rich research after my "centonian" posting.
Jansy
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