A. BOUAZZA to Stan:

Have the Lolilta poetic ‘lollipops’ (to borrow the musical idiom) ever been published and analzed as part of VN’s corpus?

Dear Mr. Bouazza, I don't know how Stan will respond to your question, but you may be interested in Dupee's brief discussion, from 1963, of the "Wanted, Wanted" poem. Here's the link:

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

Volume 1, Number 8 · December 12, 1963

Nabokov: the Prose and Poetry of It All

By F. W. Dupee

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/13570

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TO JERRY FRIEDMAN:

I appreciate your message about the Pale Fire poem. I'll respond more fully in due course. For now, I think that you, as well as Mr. Bouzza, might be interested in Dupee's essay on VN's poetry. For my purposes, at least, he comes to pretty much the same conclusion as Monroe, but without recourse to what you regard as questionable poetics.

Jim Twiggs

From: A. Bouazza <mushtary@YAHOO.COM>
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 1:00:32 PM
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] THOUGHT on Shade as poet

Stan Kelly-Bootle: Have the Lolilta poetic ‘lollipops’ (to borrow the musical idiom) ever been published and analzed as part of VN’s corpus?

American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E.E. Cummings to May Swenson, published by The Library of America (NY 2000) contains two poems, the second being On Translating "Eugene Onegin" and the first from Lolita "Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze," on page 263. Humbert Humbert is not identified as the poet.

A. Bouazza.

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