[PW] Craig Raine quote

[Graf, Jeffrey C]

Hello,

 From Lexis/Nexis:

The Independent (London)

November 18, 1990, Sunday

SECTION: THE SUNDAY REVIEW PAGE; Page 31

LENGTH: 1584 words

HEADLINE: BOOK REVIEW / Just an ordinary trilingual boy; Craig Raine 
traces the colourful early life and later literary influence of the 
creator of 'Lolita': Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd: 
Chatto, pounds 20

BYLINE: By CRAIG RAINE

BODY:
TO THE less gifted members of the literary body politic, great writers 
arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient 
for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. Time, of course, 
will render them harmless. But in the meantime, no one is immune. Take 
the case of Nabokov, whose poised, profuse, exact, poetic style has 
proved to be a particularly virulent strain across the entire spectrum 
of talent.

...

Regards,

Jeff Graf
Reference
Wells Library
Indiana University - Bloomington


Quoting januarye at gmail.com:

> I've found this quote and attribution in a few places on the Web,
> including the Columbia World of Quotations,
> http://www.bartleby.com/66/3/45903.html, which I suspect is the source
> of its other appearances:
>
> "Great writers arrive among us like new diseases?threatening,
> powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus,
> irresistible." Craig Raine (b. 1944), British poet, critic.
> Independent on Sunday
> (London, Nov. 18, 1990).
>
> Factiva has the Independent on Sunday for that date, but there are no
> articles by Craig Raine, probably because literary articles aren't
> included.
>
> Can anyone supply more definitive information, including article title
> and page number?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Susie
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