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Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 16:33:28 +1300
From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
"We speak of one thing being like some other thing when what we are
really
craving to do is to describe something like nothing on earth." Bend
Sinister, ch 14 (Vintage 174)
Incidentally that comment of VN's on Ashbery must indeed come from a
dream. There is no evidence that VN ever read or was aware of Ashbery.
The youngest English-language poet he praised was Richard Wilbur, whose
work he knew from the 1940s. The only other American poet of
approximately the same vintage he refers to was Robert Lowell, whom he
disliked, especially as a translator of Mandelstam.
Brian Boyd
From: "Juan Martinez" <mailto:jmm80625@mail.ucf.edu>
"We like to speak of one thing in terms of another thing; but what we'd
really like to describe is something that is like nothing else on this
earth."
Subject: RE: query on a quote
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 16:33:28 +1300
From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
"We speak of one thing being like some other thing when what we are
really
craving to do is to describe something like nothing on earth." Bend
Sinister, ch 14 (Vintage 174)
Incidentally that comment of VN's on Ashbery must indeed come from a
dream. There is no evidence that VN ever read or was aware of Ashbery.
The youngest English-language poet he praised was Richard Wilbur, whose
work he knew from the 1940s. The only other American poet of
approximately the same vintage he refers to was Robert Lowell, whom he
disliked, especially as a translator of Mandelstam.
Brian Boyd
From: "Juan Martinez" <mailto:jmm80625@mail.ucf.edu>
"We like to speak of one thing in terms of another thing; but what we'd
really like to describe is something that is like nothing else on this
earth."