I don't recall Dan Geoffrey reprimanding anyone. He sympathizes and
worries a lot. But Chaucer does enter his fiction under a well-known
persona more than most later poets, doesn't he?
At 07:33 AM 1/3/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Is Spenser's act in FQ 6.10.20 unique in literature, namely a poet entering
>into his fiction under his well-known persona to reprimand one of his own
>characters, so ticked off that he tells him to expect considerable
>unhappiness when the story continues. In the next stanza, he denies even
>knowing him. A.C. Hamilton
>
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