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... mind , which else recoils upon itself ” ( BLJ 3 : 225 ) . These passages imply close ties between poet and poem and suggest that writing is a protective distraction . The protagonists of Byron's earlier works find no similar resource ...
... mind , which else recoils upon itself ” ( BLJ 3 : 225 ) . These passages imply close ties between poet and poem and suggest that writing is a protective distraction . The protagonists of Byron's earlier works find no similar resource ...
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... mind still obsessed by the past suggests why the forward - looking optimism on which Byron attempts to end could be for him only a vulnerable and impermanent modus vivendi . A poem of failure , however , is not a failed poem : Childe ...
... mind still obsessed by the past suggests why the forward - looking optimism on which Byron attempts to end could be for him only a vulnerable and impermanent modus vivendi . A poem of failure , however , is not a failed poem : Childe ...
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... mind and dust - and passions and pure thoughts , Mixed , and contending without end or order , — All dormant or destructive . ( III , i , 160-167 ) The inner frustration and outer torpor repeat a malady familiar from the tales and ...
... mind and dust - and passions and pure thoughts , Mixed , and contending without end or order , — All dormant or destructive . ( III , i , 160-167 ) The inner frustration and outer torpor repeat a malady familiar from the tales and ...
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