Vietnamese Reception of British Romantic Literature?
From: Richard Tran <rqtran@berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 12:17 AM
Dear List,
Does anyone here know whether the Vietnamese read, directly or indirectly, the British Romantics (e.g. Byron, Shelley, Keats)? If so, when? And how?
Richard Tran
UC Berkeley
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From: Tai VanTa <taivanta@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 7:53 PM
Dear Richard Tran,
When I was in the junior grade in a Vietnamese High School
in Saigon in 1956 (leading to the examination for the
diploma of baccalaureate, first part--this is he high
school patterned according to the French Lycee--, I
studied , in the English class selections from Bryon,
Shelly, Keats and others such as Coleridge, Charles
Dickens.
[The next grade is the final, senior, grade of the High
school]
I don't know whether nowadays, the Vietnamese ever read
these romantics anymore or not.
Ta Van Tai
at Harvard Law School.
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