Byron's Poetic Experimentation

In this study, the author examines the evolution of Byron''s poetry from 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. The author then describes Byron''s pro...