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Dear Alex,
There is only one lecture on Ulysses. And it is collected in Nabokov's
Lectures on Literature. This, along with the Lectures on Russian
Literature, are, I think, in print. I am not sure about the Lectures on
Don Quixote.
Kiran
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
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> Message text written by Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> >I'm trying to locate a copy, at reasonable cost, of "Poems and problems"
> and "Poems" (1959). (I've tried Amazon and Alibris, but no luck). Can
> anyone explain, A) where I might look; and, B) how it is that, given the
> increasing popularity of our hero, his published poetry has been allowed
> to reside in relative obscurity? Please don't answer, as some have
> elsewhere, that verse was not his strong suit, as even a cursory glance
> at
> his poems shows this is not the case. Also, this may be a naive
> question
> but whatever happened to "Lectures on Ulysses"? Thanks.<
>
>
>
> Alex
>
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Kiran Krishna
3rd yr physics
(Falkiner High Energy Physics)
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
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The five rules of Socialism:
1. Don't think
2. If you do think, don't speak
3. If you think and speak, don't write
4. If you think, speak and write, don't sign
5. If you think, speak, write and sign, don't be surprised
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~kiran
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Dear Alex,
There is only one lecture on Ulysses. And it is collected in Nabokov's
Lectures on Literature. This, along with the Lectures on Russian
Literature, are, I think, in print. I am not sure about the Lectures on
Don Quixote.
Kiran
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
> ------------------
> Message text written by Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> >I'm trying to locate a copy, at reasonable cost, of "Poems and problems"
> and "Poems" (1959). (I've tried Amazon and Alibris, but no luck). Can
> anyone explain, A) where I might look; and, B) how it is that, given the
> increasing popularity of our hero, his published poetry has been allowed
> to reside in relative obscurity? Please don't answer, as some have
> elsewhere, that verse was not his strong suit, as even a cursory glance
> at
> his poems shows this is not the case. Also, this may be a naive
> question
> but whatever happened to "Lectures on Ulysses"? Thanks.<
>
>
>
> Alex
>
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Kiran Krishna
3rd yr physics
(Falkiner High Energy Physics)
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
--------------------------------------------
The five rules of Socialism:
1. Don't think
2. If you do think, don't speak
3. If you think and speak, don't write
4. If you think, speak and write, don't sign
5. If you think, speak, write and sign, don't be surprised
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~kiran
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