Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0011224, Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:39:36 -0800

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Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:26:38 -0500
From: "Brown, Andrew" <Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com>
Mike,

Having read Keats's letters and found nothing in those addressed to Bailey to
suggest a Proustian theme, I took Humbert's assertion to mean that his article
had intentionally been in jest. HH notes without disappointment that the
article provoked chuckles from the few scholars who read it. I think VN was
prone to enjoying this sort of humor. Possibly something of the sort was among
the minute idea seeds out of which grew the masterpiece Pale Fire.

Andrew Brown




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> Subject: Spam: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
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> Dear List,
>
> A Lolita question: Humbert notes (p. 16 in the Vintage edition) that he
> wrote an article about "The Proustian theme in a letter from Keats to
> Benjamin Bailey." I assume that the letter has something to do with memory,
> but I'm having a hard time finding any passages in Keats's letters to Bailey
> that directly deal with memory. Has anyone figured out the specific Keats
> passage that H.H. might be referring to?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Donohue
>
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