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Byron's work forms a significant part of the canon for English Romantic poetry. Others in this school include Byron's close friend Percy Shelley, his wife Mary Shelley, and John Keats.
In Don Juan and The Vision of Judgement, Byron expresses open disdain for the lake poets, particularly Robert Southey. Students might look at texts by Southey and fellow lake poet Wordsworth, for whom Byron showed less open contempt.
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The Question and Answer section for Lord Byron’s Poems is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
“She Walks in Beauty” is written in iambic tetrameter, “a meter commonly found in hymns and associated with ‘sincerity’ and ‘simplicity’” (Moran 2). Byron’s chosen meter conveys to the reader both his purity of intent (there is but one subject for...
In the poem, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Byron notes that even though great civilizations decline, their art and literature remain behind.
Byron wrote “Darkness” in July-August 1816. The poem is at least partly influenced by the mass hysteria of the time brought about by an Italian astronomer’s prediction that the sun would burn itself out on July 18th, thus destroying the world. The...
