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Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
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Dear List, and Brian Boyd
Concerning the line quoted here:
"that the Prototype must be here after--that delicious face you will see..."
I´m unable to see a connection between this vision by Keats and a Proustian
memory, nor a "here after" in VN. Could you help me?
Jansy
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From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
> Dear All,
> This was identified and quoted in Carl R. Proffer's Keys to Lolita (1968),
136.
>
> BB
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum on behalf of Donald B. Johnson
> Sent: Sun 3/20/2005 2:43 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
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> Dear List,
> Looking through my annotations to Russian Lolita (Moscow, 1991), I noticed
> that I had identified the Proustian theme in the most famous letter of
> Keats to Bailey dated November 22, 1817:
>
> "...have you never by being surprised with an old Melody--in a delicious
> place--by a delicious voice, fe[l]t over again your very speculations and
> surmises at the time it first operated on your soul--do you remember
> forming to yourself the singer's face more beautiful tha[n] it was
possible
> and yet with the elevation of the Moment you did not think so--even then
> you were mounted on the Wings of Imagination so high--that the Prototype
> must be here after--that delicious face you will see..."
>
> A feeling Keats describes here is very close to the Proustian concept of
> recreating the past through a combination of a present sensation with some
> sensuous recollection.
> An old Melody that suddenly evokes an image rising from the past in one's
> imaginative memory parallels the theme of "the little musical phrase" in
> Proust that Nabokov discussed in his lectures (238--239).
>
> Alexander Dolinin
>
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Concerning the line quoted here:
"that the Prototype must be here after--that delicious face you will see..."
I´m unable to see a connection between this vision by Keats and a Proustian
memory, nor a "here after" in VN. Could you help me?
Jansy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
> Dear All,
> This was identified and quoted in Carl R. Proffer's Keys to Lolita (1968),
136.
>
> BB
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum on behalf of Donald B. Johnson
> Sent: Sun 3/20/2005 2:43 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
>
>
>
> Dear List,
> Looking through my annotations to Russian Lolita (Moscow, 1991), I noticed
> that I had identified the Proustian theme in the most famous letter of
> Keats to Bailey dated November 22, 1817:
>
> "...have you never by being surprised with an old Melody--in a delicious
> place--by a delicious voice, fe[l]t over again your very speculations and
> surmises at the time it first operated on your soul--do you remember
> forming to yourself the singer's face more beautiful tha[n] it was
possible
> and yet with the elevation of the Moment you did not think so--even then
> you were mounted on the Wings of Imagination so high--that the Prototype
> must be here after--that delicious face you will see..."
>
> A feeling Keats describes here is very close to the Proustian concept of
> recreating the past through a combination of a present sensation with some
> sensuous recollection.
> An old Melody that suddenly evokes an image rising from the past in one's
> imaginative memory parallels the theme of "the little musical phrase" in
> Proust that Nabokov discussed in his lectures (238--239).
>
> Alexander Dolinin
>
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