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Page 79
In fact I never looked beyond the moment of composition , and published merely at the request of my friends • poetic fame is by no means the ' acme of my wishes . " He ' refers to the volume as " the offspring of my poetic mania .
In fact I never looked beyond the moment of composition , and published merely at the request of my friends • poetic fame is by no means the ' acme of my wishes . " He ' refers to the volume as " the offspring of my poetic mania .
Page 93
Of the external conditions of writing , we have word here and there in the reports of his friends and in occasional assertions in his own conversations and correspondence . He wrote , usually , at night , 89 after returning from the ...
Of the external conditions of writing , we have word here and there in the reports of his friends and in occasional assertions in his own conversations and correspondence . He wrote , usually , at night , 89 after returning from the ...
Page 205
Furthermore , for once he was a better critic of his style than were his friends . In serious verse , in the heroic couplet , even in the drama , his taste had been uncertain . He could not choose between words that had almost the same ...
Furthermore , for once he was a better critic of his style than were his friends . In serious verse , in the heroic couplet , even in the drama , his taste had been uncertain . He could not choose between words that had almost the same ...
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| Title | Byron: Romantic Paradox |
| Author | William Jonathan Calvert |
| Edition | reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Russell & Russell, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 235 pages |
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