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Byron's Poetic Experimentation
Childe Harold, the Tales and the Quest for Comedy
Introduction
In this study, the author examines the evolution of Byron's poetry from Childe Harold I and II through to the composition of Beppo.
Poetic Experimentation in Childe Harold I and II
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.
Struggle to Break into a Comic Mode
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.
Discovery of the Comic Mode
It is here, as Rawes demonstrates, that the path forward into the comic mode of Beppo and Don Juan is discovered.
Reconsideration of Byron's Attitudes
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.
