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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... seems , in stanza 44 , that the poem is on the verge of detaching itself from ' Battle's minions ' , the thought that ' thousands fall to deck some single name ' ( CHP I , 471 ) reawakens the scorn of stanza 42 , which now mutates into ...
... seems no point of stillness , and no invulnerable mental activity , that the poem can rest in . The pull of mankind appears most strongly in stanza 70. The only things that counter it here are the desire to recover the connection with ...
... seems a reasonable description of the canto , but it is one that still does not go far enough . We can and should take this argument a step further . We especially need to reconsider our earlier statement that the canto as a whole ...