This item is taken from PN Review 196, Volume 37 Number 2, November - December 2010.
Letters from Mark Beech, Ian Pindar
Kidney's on Toast
Sir:
David C. Ward's replacement of 'coffee and oranges' at the start of Wallace Stevens's 'Sunday Morning' (PNR 195) suggests a new variety of cross-referencing between modernist authors. For surely this is Leopold Bloom's breakfast?
MARK BEECH
Edenbridge
Sir:
I think David C. Ward's rewrite of Stevens – organs in a sunny chair' – is an improvement: certainly 'more erotically charged'. It made me go back to the poem, where I was sorely disappointed.
IAN PINDAR
via email
Sir:
David C. Ward's replacement of 'coffee and oranges' at the start of Wallace Stevens's 'Sunday Morning' (PNR 195) suggests a new variety of cross-referencing between modernist authors. For surely this is Leopold Bloom's breakfast?
MARK BEECH
Edenbridge
Sir:
I think David C. Ward's rewrite of Stevens – organs in a sunny chair' – is an improvement: certainly 'more erotically charged'. It made me go back to the poem, where I was sorely disappointed.
IAN PINDAR
via email
This item is taken from PN Review 196, Volume 37 Number 2, November - December 2010.
