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From: "Erin McLean" <erin@community.hipmama.com>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>; > Hi Mr. Glass. I
think Stevens' "The Emperor of Ice Cream" bears striking similarity to
Tolsoy's Anna Karenina, in the imagery used by Anna to describe debased
human need in terms of dirty ice cream. Tolstoy was one of VN's favorite
writers, of course.
> Happy new year.
>
> Erin McLean
>
> --- "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net> wrote:
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> >> This message was originally submitted by goliard@WORLDNET.ATT.NET
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> >> Did VN have anything much to say about the poetry of Wallace Stevens?
> >>
> >> I ask because I am reading Stevens with close attention for the first
time
> >> in years, and I feel an affinity of sensibility between these two
masters
> >of
> >> the musical complexities of English. Stevens' 'Sunday Morning' would
be a
> >> good place, it seems to me, to begin a meditation on a certain
similarity
> >of
> >> vision.
> >>
>
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From: "Erin McLean" <erin@community.hipmama.com>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>; > Hi Mr. Glass. I
think Stevens' "The Emperor of Ice Cream" bears striking similarity to
Tolsoy's Anna Karenina, in the imagery used by Anna to describe debased
human need in terms of dirty ice cream. Tolstoy was one of VN's favorite
writers, of course.
> Happy new year.
>
> Erin McLean
>
> --- "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net> wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >Wrom: FVWRKJVZCMHVIBGDADRZFSQHYUCDDJBLVLMHAALPT
> >
> >> This message was originally submitted by goliard@WORLDNET.ATT.NET
> >
> >> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (8
> >lines) -------------------
> >> Did VN have anything much to say about the poetry of Wallace Stevens?
> >>
> >> I ask because I am reading Stevens with close attention for the first
time
> >> in years, and I feel an affinity of sensibility between these two
masters
> >of
> >> the musical complexities of English. Stevens' 'Sunday Morning' would
be a
> >> good place, it seems to me, to begin a meditation on a certain
similarity
> >of
> >> vision.
> >>
>
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