Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0001077, Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:09:48 -0800

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Query: ADA Brown, feathers, peacocks
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From: VESTERMAN@zodiac.rutgers.edu

As to Robert Brown
feather and peacock: Browning has a poem
that has a similar synecdoche and begins something like
And did you once see Shelley plain?
And did he stop and talk to you?
How strange it seems and new.

William Vesterman