NPPF Maud's Selene to John's Endymion

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 10:08, Paul Mackin wrote:
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It's really quite impossible to know from Canto One how relevant the
hint of incest might be to the total scheme of the poem or novel.

A daughter IS mentioned via "MY little daughter's swing" (emphasis
added). Whose daughter? Beside the poet's mother, who died while he was
very young, the only female in the introductory canto is Aunt Maude. Of
course we know about Sybil from the foreword. 

We can only read on, to find out whether incest and other topics alluded
to in Canto One (death and resurrection, spiritualism (via Sherlock
Holmes), Shagbark trees, white butterflies, etc.) will bear fruit.

P.