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Re: Marianne Moore
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Jim Strachan <[log in to unmask]>
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Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:51:52 -0800
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At 06:58 PM 3/19/98 -0500, you wrote:
>this is most certainly off the topic, but i'm in desparate need of an
>expert on Marianne Moore.  i'm writing an essay on her poem "the student"
>and am curious about the following line's origin:
>
>"Jack Bookworm led a college life, says Goldsmith."
>
>now who's Goldsmith?  She gives us an apparent source in the footnotes
>(Goldsmith's The Double Transformation) but i can't seem to find that
>publication anywhere.  any suggestions?
>
>kf.
 
sounds like Oliver to me...him of She Stoops to Conquer & the Vicar of
Wakefield fame?
jim

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