Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0002060, Tue, 29 Apr 1997 19:46:54 -0700

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Re: T.S.Eliot's _The Waste Land_ notes & the PLAE FIRE notes?(fwd)
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From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>


There may be a connection between the two but Nabokov in print detested
Eliot, called him a third-rate poet, and liked to spell his name
backwards, sort of -- i. e. toileTS. Wilson, among others, tried to
convince him of Eliot's merit but never succeeded.

Galya Diment