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Page xiii
... poem that does not seem to me to possess genuine poetic quality . I have tried , in fact , to produce a readable Byron ; for Byron at his best is extraordinarily readable ; and yet I believe that there are very few modern readers who ...
... poem that does not seem to me to possess genuine poetic quality . I have tried , in fact , to produce a readable Byron ; for Byron at his best is extraordinarily readable ; and yet I believe that there are very few modern readers who ...
Page 541
... poem of 380 lines , to be published ( without my name ) in a few weeks , with notes , - 560 lines of Bosworth Field , and 250 lines of another poem in rhyme , besides half a dozen smaller pieces . The poem to be published is a Satire ...
... poem of 380 lines , to be published ( without my name ) in a few weeks , with notes , - 560 lines of Bosworth Field , and 250 lines of another poem in rhyme , besides half a dozen smaller pieces . The poem to be published is a Satire ...
Page 872
... POEMS p . 159 , Remember Thee ! Remember Thee !: This violent little poem- originally published by Medwin in his indiscreet but illuminating volume of Byronic reminiscences - was directed at the poet's first fashionable mistress , Lady ...
... POEMS p . 159 , Remember Thee ! Remember Thee !: This violent little poem- originally published by Medwin in his indiscreet but illuminating volume of Byronic reminiscences - was directed at the poet's first fashionable mistress , Lady ...
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