1. Lord Byron and English Literature
Like other romantic poets, Byron often used highly structured and rigid traditional forms to craft his poems (Knight 208). ... By writing, he also encouraged people to pay attention to the Edinburgh Reviewer's--an influential Whig Journal--actions of crucial criticism and strictness about expressing feeling sincerely in poems (MacCarthy 82). ... Lord Byron's first publicized work was Fugitive Pieces, a series of poems that he, himself paid to print (Slovey and Haerens 67). This work was criticized by Byron's close contemporaries for its eroticism and because of this he suppres...
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