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EDNOTE. Keith McMullen provides the Robert Frost poem "New Hampshire" that
Ken Tapscott suggested as relevant to parts of PALE FIRE. I repeat
Tapscott's original suggestion and give the "New Hampshire" text URL
following. Any thoughts?
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EDNOTE. NABOKV-L thanks Ken Tapscott for this item. Someone should
definitely follow it up.
----- Original Message -----
From: "ken tapscott" <kentapscott@hotmail.com>
> I've lately been reading Robert Frost and recently waded into his lengthy
> free verse piece called "New Hampshire." I just wanted to alert present or
> future _Pale Fire_ scholars here that there are definite and plainly
> intentional connections between "Pale Fire", the poem, and "New
Hampshire",
> the poem, and in fact a lot of the personal stuff which Nabokov makes fun
of
> re the 'folksy' side of John Shade is in abundant evidence re Frost
himself
> in Frost's poem. There is also mention made in "NH" of a sort of society
> which investigates the paranormal (!) and it has a three-word name, just
> like the IPH in PF. This simply cannot be a coincidence. So, it looks like
> Nabokov had specific things about Frost in mind when he composed PF (and I
> recall he lived in Frost's home for a time as well...). The whole of "New
> Hampshire" is worth investigating for the relation it bears to "Pale
Fire."
>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith McMullen" <keithsz@concentric.net>
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> http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/robertfrost/768
>
Ken Tapscott suggested as relevant to parts of PALE FIRE. I repeat
Tapscott's original suggestion and give the "New Hampshire" text URL
following. Any thoughts?
------------------------------------------------
EDNOTE. NABOKV-L thanks Ken Tapscott for this item. Someone should
definitely follow it up.
----- Original Message -----
From: "ken tapscott" <kentapscott@hotmail.com>
> I've lately been reading Robert Frost and recently waded into his lengthy
> free verse piece called "New Hampshire." I just wanted to alert present or
> future _Pale Fire_ scholars here that there are definite and plainly
> intentional connections between "Pale Fire", the poem, and "New
Hampshire",
> the poem, and in fact a lot of the personal stuff which Nabokov makes fun
of
> re the 'folksy' side of John Shade is in abundant evidence re Frost
himself
> in Frost's poem. There is also mention made in "NH" of a sort of society
> which investigates the paranormal (!) and it has a three-word name, just
> like the IPH in PF. This simply cannot be a coincidence. So, it looks like
> Nabokov had specific things about Frost in mind when he composed PF (and I
> recall he lived in Frost's home for a time as well...). The whole of "New
> Hampshire" is worth investigating for the relation it bears to "Pale
Fire."
>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith McMullen" <keithsz@concentric.net>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (2
lines) -------------------
> http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/robertfrost/768
>