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.