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... Childe Harold . For Byron , poetry is basically a projection , the verbal sloughing off of what cannot be put into action ; yet such a projection can itself be a new life form , a creation existing alongside the poet , as it were ( cf.
... Childe Harold . For Byron , poetry is basically a projection , the verbal sloughing off of what cannot be put into action ; yet such a projection can itself be a new life form , a creation existing alongside the poet , as it were ( cf.
Page 117
... Childe Harold III , vii , is the prison of the scorpion , Remorse : The Mind , that broods o'er guilty woes , Is like the Scorpion girt by fire , In circle narrowing as it glows , The flames around their captive close , Till inly ...
... Childe Harold III , vii , is the prison of the scorpion , Remorse : The Mind , that broods o'er guilty woes , Is like the Scorpion girt by fire , In circle narrowing as it glows , The flames around their captive close , Till inly ...
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... Childe Harold was begun in early May of 1816 and finished in late June or early July . In these opening stanzas the change from the early Byron is at once apparent . Life is no longer new and full of promise . ' No wonder waits him ...
... Childe Harold was begun in early May of 1816 and finished in late June or early July . In these opening stanzas the change from the early Byron is at once apparent . Life is no longer new and full of promise . ' No wonder waits him ...
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