Matt Roth:See attached
Edmund Wilson's "The Pickeral Pond: A Double Pastoral." You will recognize
[s]pot[s]/[s]top[s] and spider/redips. Alas, no "powder"/"red wop" or, for
that matter, partizan/nazi trap. Still, this would seem to be proof enough of a
friendly (I believe) homage to EW in "PF." Oh, the poem is from a 1947 issue of
the journal Furioso. I believe it was reprinted in EW's 1961
collection, Night Thoughts, though I haven't received that as yet.
JM: You are indeed a talented researcher.
A gift to all of us.
Do you think that Nabokov's "red wop",
if addressed by VN to Wilson as it seems to be the case, is a
"friendly homage'? Added to the "nazitrap/partizan"? I confess
that I tried to read the double pastoral for the "art" and found it empty
and clumsy, at least in my first
try.