In the fourth canto, the author is shaving and thinking about himself writing a poem about being in the bathtub, shaving, while thinking about a poem he is going to write.
In the foreword to this poem in iambic pentameter couplets, the editor mentions that he was forced to leave New Wye after interviewing the man who murdered the author. In the fourth canto, the author is shaving and thinking about himself writing a poem about being in the bathtub, shaving, while thinking about a poem he is going to write. The larger work, in which it appears, concerns the imaginary country of Zembla and its King Charles II, who is actually the poem's editor Charles Kinbote. For 10 points name this 999-line poem, the centerpiece of a novel of the same title by Vladimir Nobokov.
In the foreword to this poem in iambic pentameter couplets, the editor mentions that he was forced to leave New Wye after interviewing the man who murdered the author.
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