NPPF: Preliminary: The Epigraph

[MalignD at aol.com]

Rob Jackson:

> <<(I think it's a stretch to nominate Shade as a "major poet", both on the 
> strength of
> the poetry itself and in terms of the details of his career and work's 
> reception which are sprinkled throughout the text, even though that might be 
> Kinbote's evaluation of him. In fact, *because* that's Kinbote's opinion is cause 
> enough for doubt.)>>
> 
Perhaps the time has come to speak to the relative merits of Shade as a poet. 
  God knows it's interesting, as it brings into question VN's intentions and 
his own qualities as a poet.   And it opens into the wider question, raised 
first, I think, by Richard Rorty, as to how to assess the quality of writing of 
both Kinbote and Shade in a novel which asks, at least according to Rorty, 
that such questions be considered.

[to Ms. Bell:   this is the part that relates to Nick Carroway.]


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