On May 16, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Jansy wrote: And, as Carolyn advised the VN-L, "A dip into the archives will reward the interested Nabokovian in associations of larks with madness in poems by Pushkin and Tiutchev" but, although dip I did, to recover postings about a "skylark's day" and Victor Fet's link to the reproduction of lark songs, I was unable to find the promised reward.
Jansy,
Try spelling it Tyutchev. I have noticed that the archives' search engine is more than a little perverse. Often something I know I myself have posted will refuse to be found. Sometimes you can get it to cooperate by changing the order of words. It's really very odd.
As to Pushkin and Fet - sorry, the engine refuses all my entreaties. And yet, (btw, Fet rhymes with yet, also with nyet) I read whatever I read about Fed/larks/skylarks/nightingales/mockingbirds in the archives.* Why are you so interested, I wonder.
Carolyn
* ok - the magic word is nightingale - try it and see.