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Byron’s First Poem Byron’s First Poem
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Fugitive Pieces and Poems Original and Translated Fugitive Pieces and Poems Original and Translated
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Byron’s Sonnets Byron’s Sonnets
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Byron’s Variations on the Sonnet Byron’s Variations on the Sonnet
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Suggested Reading Suggested Reading
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1 Byron’s Early Poetical Practices
Get accessShobhana Bhattacharji is Professor Emerita at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, where she taught for forty-three years. She has a PhD in Byron’s drama and sits on the Advisory Board of the International Association of Byron Societies. Some of her papers presented at International Byron Conferences have been published in The Byron Journal and conference proceedings. In addition to editing the seminal Indian Travel Writing (2008), her articles have been published in Lord Byron’s Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind (2016), Breaking the Mould: Essays on Byron in Honour of Peter Cochran (2018), and The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing (2015).
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Published:22 October 2024
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Abstract
In the more than 170 poems Byron wrote between 1798 and March 1812, when Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage was published, he developed and honed the poetical practices he would use to the end of his career. This chapter examines his very first poem, the first and last volumes of the Southwell poems, and his early sonnets, which show him discovering and developing quickness of composition, variations on ab rhymes, voice and tone, enjambment, digression, single sentence poems and stanzas that became the long cadences of Childe Harold. It looks at examples of Byron trying out conversational styles by loosening the insistent rhythm of the earliest lyrics, and experimenting with changing perspectives, voice and metre, direct addresses to the reader or subject of a poem, skilful alliteration, and imitations of his poetic predecessors. It argues that Byron created poetic spaces for himself within inherited forms, particularly the sonnet, and it explores Byron’s habit of embedding sonnets within his longer poems, foreshadowing his later use of shorter poetic forms within long poems.
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