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From: STADLEN@aol.com
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Nabokov's Pale Fire and R. Frost's "New Hampshire"

In a message dated 12/06/2004 20:42:54 GMT Standard Time, chtodel@cox.net writes:

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/robertfrost/768

From "New Hampshire"

How are we to write
The Russian novel in America
As long as life goes so unterribly?


Anthony Stadlen
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EDNOTE. Yeah, but Frost wrote this in 1923--and  VN is citing (perhaps) the poem in the late fifties. As  a marginal note I would add (based on my always hazy recollection) Frost was on the outer fringes of the Brit. Georgian poets  admired by VN at some point.