Subject
Re: Query: PF's "Repton"
Date
Body
From: Brian Boyd <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz> in reply to Sergey Il'in query
------------------------------------------------------------
FROM: Il'in:
I have two question on PF
1. Who (or what) is Repburg:
"... the buldozers spared an arc of those sacred trees planted by landscaper
of genius (Repburg) at the end of Shakespeare Avenue, on the campus"
(Commentary to Line 49)
and
2. What about "Troth":
"... a whole mountain of gift boys from Troth, and Tuscany, and Albanoland"
(Commentary to Line 80".
Thanks beforehand
Sergey B. Il'in
<isb@glas.apc.org>
Moscow
----------------------------------------------------------
Boyd response:
Repburg is Humphry Repton (1752-1818), landscape architect "of
genius," mentioned in _Mansfield Park_. ("-ton" for "town," as in
Newton, Foxton, etc.="burg")
From: Brian Boyd
English Department
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand
Fax (64 9) 373 7429 Tel (64 9) 373 7599 ext 7480
Home fax/tel: (64 9) 620 6597
e-mail: b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz
------------------------------------------------------------
FROM: Il'in:
I have two question on PF
1. Who (or what) is Repburg:
"... the buldozers spared an arc of those sacred trees planted by landscaper
of genius (Repburg) at the end of Shakespeare Avenue, on the campus"
(Commentary to Line 49)
and
2. What about "Troth":
"... a whole mountain of gift boys from Troth, and Tuscany, and Albanoland"
(Commentary to Line 80".
Thanks beforehand
Sergey B. Il'in
<isb@glas.apc.org>
Moscow
----------------------------------------------------------
Boyd response:
Repburg is Humphry Repton (1752-1818), landscape architect "of
genius," mentioned in _Mansfield Park_. ("-ton" for "town," as in
Newton, Foxton, etc.="burg")
From: Brian Boyd
English Department
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand
Fax (64 9) 373 7429 Tel (64 9) 373 7599 ext 7480
Home fax/tel: (64 9) 620 6597
e-mail: b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz