Pale Fire

Pale Fire, a poem in heroic couplets, of nine hundred ninety nine lines, divided into four cantos, was composed by John Francis Shade (born July c, 1898, died July 21, 1959) during the last twenty days of his life, at his residence in New Wye, Appalachia, U.S.A. The manuscript, mostly a Fair Copy, from which the present text has been faithfully printed, cons...