Byron's Poetic Experimentation: Childe Harold, the Tales, and the Quest for ComedyAshgate, 2000 - 147 頁 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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... fate and that of the desolated Byronic hero . He is , in the first instance , more ambitious than this . He puts aside the whole question of his own suffering , and turns instead to Harold as a fictional image of suffering itself ...
... fate in the sense that Byron ' knows ' his here , but knowing that one simply repeats the past does not help prevent one from being such a repetition . Yet Byron is not claiming any kind of escape from his fate as a human being . Rather ...
... fate , or to accept that this fate is ' redeemed only ' by man's ' indomitable spirit and mind'.54 Instead , as I have tried to argue throughout this chapter , Childe Harold IV attempts to demonstrate , and in doing so celebrate and ...