[Vwoolf] A four-piece suit

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

This is interesting, but also intriguing. Did the person who so 
described Stevens know of Woolf's comment about Eliot, I wonder? It is 
possible that two people made the same joke independently, but it seems 
more likely that (as in the Hill review) Woolf is being quoted without 
attribution. I am assuming that there really is no such thing as a 
four-piece suit, but what do I know?

I am reminded of the skit:

     And this is good old Boston,
     The home of the bean and the cod,
     Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots,
     And the Cabots talk only to God.

In both cases you think of a measure of upper-crustedness, and then top it.

Jeremy H

Den 24.02.2014 17:02, skrev Adolphe Haberer:
> Not so rare as all that: There is a biography of Wallace Stevens by 
> William Pritchard entitled _The Man who Wore a Four-Piece Suit_
> See 
> http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/20/books/the-man-who-wore-a-four-piece-suit.html
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