Byron's Poetic Experimentation: Childe Harold, the Tales, and the Quest for ComedyAshgate, 2000 - 147 pages In this study, the author examines the evolution of Byron's poetry from Childe Harold I and II through to the composition of Beppo. Beginning with a close reading of the sustained poetic experimentation that constitutes Childe Harold I and II, he charts the progress of that experimentation in the Tales where Byron's poetry gets entrenched in a tragic idiom. The author then describes Byron's prolonged struggle to break clear of the imaginative limitations imposed by that tragic idiom and to break into a sustainable comic mode: a struggle that drives Childe Harold III, The Prisoner of Chillon, and The Dream only to culminate in success in Childe Harold IV. It is here, as Rawes demonstrates, that the path forward into the comic mode of Beppo and Don Juan is discovered. Byron's Poetic Experimentation also offers a substantial reconsideration of Byron's shifting attitude towards Wordsworthian idealism and a detailed analysis of the structured eclecticism of Manfred. |
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... suffering towards which ' The Monk of Athos ' begins to move , and which The Giaour begins to explore.49 It is a vision that exerted a considerable influence over Byron's subsequent relation to the whole business of writing . It exerted ...
... suffering , and turns instead to Harold as a fictional image of suffering itself , though Byron's suffering , of course , figures in this image . Rather than self - consciously pull back from the idea that he is , now , irrevocably ...
... suffering . 51 Either way , the ' refuge ' is a temporary one . Neither the self nor consciousness can ultimately escape either ' the turmoil below ' or ' suffering ' , and both remain ' coop'd in clay ' . If indeed ' the self ' can ...
Contents
Mixed in One Mighty Scene with Varied Beauty Glow | 1 |
The Frame of Things Disjoint | 27 |
A Narrow Escape into Faith | 50 |
Copyright | |
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