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> Does anyone know of any writer before VN who used parentheses so
artfully?
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> Cummings was cunning on that, I think.
EDNOTE. The august Oxford University Press has published a scholarly tome
by John Lennard devoted to the use of parentheses in the poetry of Marvell,
Coleridge, and Eliot (with side glances at other worthies, including Elvis
Costello). Lennard entitles his 1991 study But I Digress: the Exploitation
of Parentheses in English Printed Verse.
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> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (15
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> Does anyone know of any writer before VN who used parentheses so
artfully?
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> from vmylnikov@yahoo.com
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> Cummings was cunning on that, I think.
EDNOTE. The august Oxford University Press has published a scholarly tome
by John Lennard devoted to the use of parentheses in the poetry of Marvell,
Coleridge, and Eliot (with side glances at other worthies, including Elvis
Costello). Lennard entitles his 1991 study But I Digress: the Exploitation
of Parentheses in English Printed Verse.