Hermes' Lyre
From the mysterious glosses by ''EK'' in the poetry of Edmund Spenser, to the self-commentary in Vladimir Nabokov''s Pale Fire, readers of literature have been fascinated by the comments, addenda, and footnotes added by authors to their own work. In this insightful and original work, Sherry Roush investigates poets'' motivations for writing glosses. She argues that self-commentary differs fundamen...
From the mysterious glosses by ''EK'' in the poetry of Edmund Spenser, to the self-commentary in Vladimir Nabokov''s Pale Fire, readers of literature have been fascinated by the comments, addenda, and footnotes added by authors to their own work. In this insightful and original work, Sherry Roush investigates poets'' motivations for writing glosses. She argues that self-commentary differs fundamen...
