In a message dated 11/12/2005 16:27:24 GMT Standard Time, chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu writes:
What is at issue is Nabokov's attitude to 'Shade's' poem. Nabokov treats Shade and 'his' conventional poem ironically in my view.
What of Nabokov's assertion that John Shade is by far the "greatest" of invented poets (if I remember correctly)?
Anthony Stadlen