Epic Poetry ... poem/read dynamic

[Michael Joseph]

Tim, Milton aside, why do you say Shade's poem lacks a poem/reader
dynamic? I don't ask to put you on the spot, but inasmuch as it
strikes me as very musical and redolent of Nabokov's own ideas (as
David and I have been discussing), and because parts of it are very
affecting, I guess I'm willing to risk putting you on the spot (grin) to
find out what it is I'm missing - or what it is that's missing that I'm
not seeing.


Michael



> And, lest we forget, this discussion of Milton began when I contended that
> Shade's poem, though good, lacks a poem/reader dynamic in and of itself,
> unlike a poem such as Milton's.  The poem/reader dynamic emerges when
> Kinbote begins to misinterpret it.  Consequently, the poem PF achieves its
> "greatness" via Kinbote's reading of it.
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