According to Jim Twiggs, R.S. Gwynn in a post dated 11/1/09 wrote:
In an essay to be published by Gingko Press as part of a "facsimile" edition of Shade's notecards,
I suggest that Yvor Winters, whom VN knew, is a plausible model for Shade.
Brian Boyd has written a splendid analysis of the poem
(which should put to rest forever the notion promoted by some
that VN intentionally wrote a "bad" poem to serve
as a mere sounding board for Kinbote's rhapsodics).
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I wonder if you might be more forthcoming about this.
Is such a standalone version of the poem really to be made?
As notecards?
Notes, commentary, an entry about "stang"?
More importantly, in my view,
was(is) any consideration (being) given to
including a cd of a recording of the hour long transparent thingum.
I read some time ago in WSJ that publishers love
projects that include such things.
Just wondering,
gsl