Re: poetic allusion in salinger
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Tue, 08 Jul 1997 13:00:47 -0600 (MDT)
sonny, you're cooking--don't organize, flow! I too have wondered how much
Salinger derrives from literature. I wonder if he wants to answer or echo
eliot and rilke, how deeply they are in him and how much he puts these
poets (and others?) into his work. I will go to my salzburg and read the
essay you note and probably have more to say, but for now, I'm just
thinking out loud and wondering if jds's concept of being an amateur
reader is possible since he's so clearly professional at including
literature in his work! will