NPPF: Canto Three: Some Notes (1)

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 5 08:37:57 CDT 2003


--- Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org> wrote:
> 
> That Goethe is quoted so earnestly while Eliot is parodied, I think says
something about Shade's opinion about both of these authors.

Thanks for finding all these references to other poems.  But lets' ask what
good do they do for the poem or the novel.  Isn't Shade denigrating his own
work by playing these games with others' poems?  Do these other poems
contribute anything to Pale Fire?  Doesn't Kinbote criticize Shade for
referencing other author's works in this poem?

David Morris

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