Author

Publication

2000 - Ashgate, Aldershot, Hants, U.K. ; Burlington, Vt, England

Language

English

Word Count

36,750 words, Guess

Page Count

147 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number00042046
  • LibraryThing4694426
  • Goodreads3655129

Classifications

  • DDC821/.7
  • LCCPR4357 .R39 2000

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

Topics

HumorPOETRYTechniqueHistory and criticismEnglish Humorous poetryComic, The, in literatureComic, The, in literature.

Series Statement

  • The nineteenth century

Other Editions

  • Byron's poetic experimentation: Childe Harold, the tales, and the quest for comedyAshgate2000-01-01

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