Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0000843, Fri, 1 Dec 1995 09:09:48 -0800

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Re: Library of America queries (fwd)
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EDITORIAL NOTE. This and the following posting are replies to Brian
Boyd's request for information needed inhis annotation of the forthcoming
Library of American editions of VN's works.

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 22:24:41 -0500
From: John_Lavagnino@Brown.edu
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Re: Library of America queries (fwd)

In the commentary to line 347 in *Pale Fire*, "curious Germans" is from
Pope's `Imitations of English Poets: Earl of Dorset---``Phryne'' '.
Nabokov also quotes this in *Speak, Memory*, page 278.

John Lavagnino
Women Writers Project, Brown University