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
A.C.Hamilton
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Queen's University, Canada
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