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Subject: Re: [Fw RE: query on a quote:one thing like another
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 08:24:13 +1100 (EST)
From: Kiran Krishna <kiran@Physics.usyd.edu.au>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
While VN did dislike Lowell as a translator, I recall some very civil
comments about one of Lowell's own poems. I sometimes wonder what he
thought of his sometime colleague, Yvor Winters and his wife, Janet
Lewis.
Also of interest would be his thoughts on Delmore Schwartz as a poet.
Kiran
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
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> Subject: RE: query on a quote
> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 16:33:28 +1300
> From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
>
>
> "We speak of one thing being like some other thing when what we are
> really
> craving to do is to describe something like nothing on earth." Bend
> Sinister, ch 14 (Vintage 174)
>
> Incidentally that comment of VN's on Ashbery must indeed come from a
> dream. There is no evidence that VN ever read or was aware of Ashbery.
> The youngest English-language poet he praised was Richard Wilbur, whose
> work he knew from the 1940s. The only other American poet of
> approximately the same vintage he refers to was Robert Lowell, whom he
> disliked, especially as a translator of Mandelstam.
>
> Brian Boyd
>
> From: "Juan Martinez" <mailto:jmm80625@mail.ucf.edu>
> "We like to speak of one thing in terms of another thing; but what we'd
> really like to describe is something that is like nothing else on this
> earth."
>
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Kiran Krishna
3rd yr physics
(Falkiner High Energy Physics)
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
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The five rules of Socialism:
1. Don't think
2. If you do think, don't speak
3. If you think and speak, don't write
4. If you think, speak and write, don't sign
5. If you think, speak, write and sign, don't be surprised
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~kiran
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Subject: Re: [Fw RE: query on a quote:one thing like another
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 08:24:13 +1100 (EST)
From: Kiran Krishna <kiran@Physics.usyd.edu.au>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
While VN did dislike Lowell as a translator, I recall some very civil
comments about one of Lowell's own poems. I sometimes wonder what he
thought of his sometime colleague, Yvor Winters and his wife, Janet
Lewis.
Also of interest would be his thoughts on Delmore Schwartz as a poet.
Kiran
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: query on a quote
> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 16:33:28 +1300
> From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
>
>
> "We speak of one thing being like some other thing when what we are
> really
> craving to do is to describe something like nothing on earth." Bend
> Sinister, ch 14 (Vintage 174)
>
> Incidentally that comment of VN's on Ashbery must indeed come from a
> dream. There is no evidence that VN ever read or was aware of Ashbery.
> The youngest English-language poet he praised was Richard Wilbur, whose
> work he knew from the 1940s. The only other American poet of
> approximately the same vintage he refers to was Robert Lowell, whom he
> disliked, especially as a translator of Mandelstam.
>
> Brian Boyd
>
> From: "Juan Martinez" <mailto:jmm80625@mail.ucf.edu>
> "We like to speak of one thing in terms of another thing; but what we'd
> really like to describe is something that is like nothing else on this
> earth."
>
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Kiran Krishna
3rd yr physics
(Falkiner High Energy Physics)
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
--------------------------------------------
The five rules of Socialism:
1. Don't think
2. If you do think, don't speak
3. If you think and speak, don't write
4. If you think, speak and write, don't sign
5. If you think, speak, write and sign, don't be surprised
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~kiran
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