http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/ Anthony Powell Discussion List Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:11:33 GMT Nicholas Birns http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15792 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15792 'Carew' as in the Cavalier poet and younger contemporary of Robert Burton is said to be pronounced as if it were 'Carey'. I am sure this is how AP would have Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:08:31 GMT Andrew Clarke http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15791 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15791 A recent article in "The Spectator" suggested (rightly or wrongly) that Americans generally make a bigger effort to pronounce foreign names in the Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:11:25 GMT Jeanne Reed http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15790 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15790 That's what we were taught years and years ago -- had to do with the meter, I recall. But 'Carew' -??! Jeanne ... [Non-text portions of this message have Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:50:34 GMT Mark Hall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15789 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15789 Supposedly Byron referred to his hero as Don Ju-an. ... From: aplist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:aplist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicholas Birns Sent: Monday, Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:45:29 GMT Nicholas Birns http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15788 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15788 I wonder if we are ttold how to pronounce Cowper, Carew, or 'Don Juan' ? Sent from my iPod Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:09:25 GMT Julian Allason http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15787 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15787 The Daily Telegraph's review of the new edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature includes the following: 'Oddly we are advised how to pronounce Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:05:59 GMT james scott http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15786 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15786 In a message dated November 4, John Gould informed us that "The Boston Athenaeum DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME discussion group will be meeting this Monday, Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:59:10 GMT james@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15785 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15785 Like Sir Gavin, I find Rosie M. both interesting and attractive. And I agree that traces of Inez Holden and various others from the 20's pilgrimage between the Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:36:02 GMT The Book Shed http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15784 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15784 The Albany Institute of History & Art Book Fair takes place on Sunday, Nov. 8. A selection of Powell and Powelliana will be offered by The Book Shed. Details Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:31:32 GMT Michael Henle http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15783 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15783 Ahh . . . ! 'Sympathetic' and 'attractive'? I suspected there was some additional criterion you had in mind, besides 'memorable.' I agree completely that Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:06:44 GMT ljkart2001 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15782 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15782 She is, of necessity (as Nick obliquely explains in his ruminations in CCR about how a marriage can be depicted in fiction), given to us in an at once very Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:48:53 GMT Jeffrey Manley http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15781 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15781 All those you list are certainly interesting (i.e. memorable) characters, but somehow Roberta is both interesting/memorable (ambitious and beautiful and Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:04:23 GMT TEm8994907@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15780 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15780 It's one of the few relatively inexpensive ways of creating a vacancy in the mistress department. Didn't Jimmy Goldsmith do this very thing? John. ... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:52:12 GMT JOHN GILKS http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15779 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15779 " How many tycoons wed their former mistresses once their attractions have been explored at length and their youthful bloom is fanée? (All right, leaving Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:23:10 GMT TEm8994907@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15778 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/message/15778 May I add to the very interesting list of Dance women compiled by Michael Henle the name of Matilda Wilson, who strikes me as possibly the most memorable and