An edition of Byron's poetic experimentation (2000)
Byron's poetic experimentation
Childe Harold, the tales, and the quest for comedy
By Alan Rawes
Publish Date
2000
Publisher
Ashgate
Language
eng
Pages
168
Description:
"In this study, Alan Rawes examines the evolution of Byron's poetry form 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. Rawes 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."--Jacket.
subjects: Comic, The, in literature, English Experimental poetry, English Humorous poetry, History and criticism, Humor, Technique, Byron, george gordon byron, baron, 1788-1824, Poetry, history and criticism, POETRY, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Childe Harold's pilgrimage (Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron), Criticism and interpretation