Re: JDS The Poet
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:02:45 +1100
I can' remember exactly where I read it, but I know it was in an essay
about the changing perception of the `right' marriagable age and `correct'
sexual conduct. Has anyone else heard this anecdote? I know I can't have
made it up because it's stayed with me ever since I read it.
MEPIERCE wrote:
> What??? Say it isn't so. I never knew this about Dostoevsky. Please
> elaborate if possible or refer me to a reliable biography so that I can
> aquire more information. I'm not sure that I can bring myself to read
> Dostoevsky again if true. Of course many artists have such demons
> raging beneath the surface--
>
> That is why I shall treasure today the image of Blake and his wife,
> reading poetry --in the buff--in a tree--delightful!!
Camille
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