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EDNOTE. I don't know whether anyone has done exhaustive work on PF & Wordsworth. Can someone help with this?
----- Original Message -----
From: David Haan
To: nabokv-l@listserv.ucsb.edu
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 7:04 PM
Subject: Wordsworth, searching for
"We'll talk of sunshine and of song,
And summer days, when we were young;
Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now."
So ends Wordsworth's "To a Butterfly"; twenty days span July 2-21, 1959.
Has Wordsworth sourcing in Pale Fire been fully adumbrated?
(I mean his writings, not coincidences of birth/deathdates and posthumous preludes.)
(I'm only aware of but haven't access to Sicker's'92 "Pale Fire and Lyrical Ballads" paper.)
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----- Original Message -----
From: David Haan
To: nabokv-l@listserv.ucsb.edu
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 7:04 PM
Subject: Wordsworth, searching for
"We'll talk of sunshine and of song,
And summer days, when we were young;
Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now."
So ends Wordsworth's "To a Butterfly"; twenty days span July 2-21, 1959.
Has Wordsworth sourcing in Pale Fire been fully adumbrated?
(I mean his writings, not coincidences of birth/deathdates and posthumous preludes.)
(I'm only aware of but haven't access to Sicker's'92 "Pale Fire and Lyrical Ballads" paper.)
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