Susan Elizabeth Sweeney wrote:

 

> [EDNOTE.  Congratulations to Matthew on his discovery!

 

Seconded!

 

I find it really remarkable that after more than 40 years in
which so much has been written on /Pale Fire/, only a small
minority of readers knew that Ford was a real poet, and possibly
nobody had found the poem until now.

 

> It would be nice
> to see this insight, and various others contributed by other subscribers
> of late, refined, polished, and submitted for publication in The
> Nabokovian, Nabokov Studies, or elsewhere.  SES]

 

Is there some place where non-academics can see what would be
involved in refining and what these two publications are looking
for?  And, just to take hypothetical examples, is there a
reasonable chance that either publication would be interested
in a timeline or in a list of discrepancies and impossibilities
in Kinbote's parts of the book?  How would I know?

 

Is the answer the one that so many literary magazines give?
"You will probably want to acquire a copy of our magazine to
see what we're looking for."

 

I (or anyone) could put a link in the Wikipedia article on
/Pale Fire/ to Matthew's post in the archives.  Is it good
etiquette to wait till he publishes in a journal (if he does)?

 

This last question is just for my curiosity, since Matthew
probably already knows the answer: if he decides to publish his
find, would quoting the whole poem be a copyright violation?

 

Jerry Friedman

 

[EDNOTE.  In response to your first question,  I would imagine that the Nabokovian, Nabokov Studies, or the Zembla website might be very interested in publishing a PF timeline.  Because they are edited by Nabokov scholars, moreover, you would probably receive a quicker and more substantive response to a query.  You can find information on how to contact all three at Zembla.  Good luck!  SES]