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Re: [NABOKV-L] [NABOKOV-LIST] Stylistic distortions and foot-notespointed out that "old/cold" was a rare, sad rhyming pair that also rhymed in German: "alt/kalt." Wonder if VN had this added nuance of "alt-itude" brooding in some recess of his fertile mind?
Dear Stan,
"Delvig* disliked mystical poetry. He used to say: the nearer to heaven, the colder [it/one is getting]" (Pushkin, "Table-talk," 1835). If I'm not mistaken, Khodasevich speaks of the "Delvig law" in his book on Derzhavin.
You may know that, in Russian, kholodnyi (cold) rhymes with golodnyi (hungry). See Nekrasov and Nabokov's Despair (Ardalion's words).
*Baron Anton Delvig (1798-1831), a Russian poet, Pushkin's best friend at the lyceum and later.
best,
Alexey
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Dear Stan,
"Delvig* disliked mystical poetry. He used to say: the nearer to heaven, the colder [it/one is getting]" (Pushkin, "Table-talk," 1835). If I'm not mistaken, Khodasevich speaks of the "Delvig law" in his book on Derzhavin.
You may know that, in Russian, kholodnyi (cold) rhymes with golodnyi (hungry). See Nekrasov and Nabokov's Despair (Ardalion's words).
*Baron Anton Delvig (1798-1831), a Russian poet, Pushkin's best friend at the lyceum and later.
best,
Alexey
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