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Thanks, Charles! I was surprised when I found out F. K. Lane
was real, but not as surprised as I am by Edsel. If I'd simply
searched the Web for "Edsel Ford poet", I'd have found this:
<http://www.rogersarkansas.com/museum/donationOfTheMonth/01-05.asp>.
Here's the beginning of Ford's sonnet "An Old Gray Barn", quoted at
the above site.
The barn is a gray grandfather on whose knees
The wind plays, like children; and his ribs
Rattle with their laughter. Some of these
Still stand by country roads; and old corn-cribs
Lean hard upon the muscle of the air.
"Muscle of the air"--sounds to me like the same style as "shaking
fire/ Out of the morning". I wonder whether there's some clue
in the poem that Kinbote quoted.
Funny that I was just talking about Nabokov's incorporating
other people's writing into one's art. Will this lead us
to Eliot?
Jerry Friedman
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was real, but not as surprised as I am by Edsel. If I'd simply
searched the Web for "Edsel Ford poet", I'd have found this:
<http://www.rogersarkansas.com/museum/donationOfTheMonth/01-05.asp>.
Here's the beginning of Ford's sonnet "An Old Gray Barn", quoted at
the above site.
The barn is a gray grandfather on whose knees
The wind plays, like children; and his ribs
Rattle with their laughter. Some of these
Still stand by country roads; and old corn-cribs
Lean hard upon the muscle of the air.
"Muscle of the air"--sounds to me like the same style as "shaking
fire/ Out of the morning". I wonder whether there's some clue
in the poem that Kinbote quoted.
Funny that I was just talking about Nabokov's incorporating
other people's writing into one's art. Will this lead us
to Eliot?
Jerry Friedman
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
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