Byron's poetic experimentation
Subtitle: Childe Harold, the tales, and the quest for comedy
By: Alan Rawes.
Series: The nineteenth century; Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, U.K. ; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.; Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Technique.; Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Humor.; Experimental poetry, English -- History and criticism.; Humorous poetry, English -- History and criticism.; Comic, The, in literature.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index.