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Dante Pilgrim reprimands characters in Hell and tells them to expect considerable unhappiness for their friends and relatives up top. And Dante was studied at Cambridge.At 03:00 PM 1/3/01 -0500, you wrote: >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 >> >>A.C.Hamilton >>[log in to unmask] >>Cappon Professor Emeritus >>Queen's University, Canada >>Phone & Fax: 613- 544-6759 > >David Lee Miller > >Department of English >University of Kentucky >Lexington, KY 40506-0027 > >859-257-6965 (office) >859-252-3680 (home) >859-323-1072 (fax) >