Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0001168, Mon, 1 Jul 1996 16:51:39 -0700

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Swinburne Query (fwd)
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Body
From: joseph piercy <j9250308@wlv.ac.uk>

Dear Nabokovians
Could anybody help me with the following ?
1) Lucette quotes (as told be the not entirely reliable Vivian Darkbloom) a line from
Algernon Swinburne in "Ada" : "All our old loves are corpses or wives"
(penguin edition p288) does anybody know from which work this quote
derives.
2) Did Nabokov ever comment/ write about Swinburne at any point.
I am interested in this as Swinburne's elaborate alliterative epithets
have a peculiar Nabokovian flavour. "Dolores" being a fine example of
this.

Regards
Joseph Piercy
University Of Wolverhampton.
J9250308@wlv.ac.uk