Its first canto begins, "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/ By the false azure of the windowpane." Its final canto is incomplete, as its poet was gunned down by Jacob Vino
Its first canto begins, "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/ By the false azure of the windowpane." Its final canto is incomplete, as its poet was gunned down by Jacob Vinogradov shortly before writing the last line -- or so we are told by Charles Kinbote, a commentator who also happens to be completely insane. FTP, name this autobiographical poem by the nonexistent John Shade, the subject of a 1959 satire by Vladimir Nabokov.
Its first canto begins, "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/
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