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CHW to JF: haute bourgeoisie. VN on Pound.

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Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:03:17 EST

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Jerry Friedman in a message dated 26/01/2007 wrote:

Thanks to you and Sergei Soloviev for information on the
Russian gentry and to Charles Harrison-Wallace for the "haute
bourgeoisie" quotation.

This was Matthew's interesting quote 24/01/2007, not mine, I hasten to say. But I've just found the following quote by VN on Pound in the archives, which seemed to me entertaining enough to repeat: "In a 1967 Paris Review interview, Vladimir Nabokov scoffed at 'the pretentious nonsense of Mr. Pound, that total fake.' "

[Date:         Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:47:36 -0800
From:         "D. Barton Johnson"
Subject:      Fw: NYTimes.com Article: Ezra Pound. Nabokov comment on Pound]

Charles

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