Vladimir Nabokov

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From: "Bouazza, Abdellah" <abdellah.bouazza@hp.com>
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> As to WS, the sole reference is to be found in Boyd's "VN: The American
Years". VN attended a poetry reading which included WS.
> "Sunday Morning", "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle", "Credences of Summer" etc.
etc. are, of course, brilliant and contain dazzling imagery which is alas
lacking in his later meditative and philosophical poetry.
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> A. Bouazza.
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> > Did VN have anything much to say about the poetry of Wallace Stevens?
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> > I ask because I am reading Stevens with close attention for the first
time
> > in years, and I feel an affinity of sensibility between these two
masters
> of
> > the musical complexities of English. Stevens' 'Sunday Morning' would be
a
> > good place, it seems to me, to begin a meditation on a certain
similarity
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> > vision.
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