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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... poem belongs to its speaker , who remains our focus of attention until the end of the canto . We watch him as he strikes his strain , so to speak . And the poem has shifted not only from being a narrative sequence to being a lyrical one ...
... poem stays faithful to the initial , spontaneous response that opens the stanza . Resigned to failure now , Byron holds on to the hope of success ' soon ' . The problem , according to Byron , is that ' there is too much of man here ...
... poem claims to record ' between August and November 1803'.33 This , then , is McGann's critical view of the poem : It narrates B's early passion for Mary Chaworth and is set in the environs of her home at Annesley Park and Hall.34 ...