Aspects of Poetry; Being Lectures Delivered At Oxford
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His cadences were few, but they were strong and impressive, and carried with them, for the time, every soul that heard them. If we look for what is most characteristic, in Byron's poetic style, it is not to his romantic narratives that we turn — to his Giaours and his Laras. Neither is it to Childe Harold, much as it contains of interest, for in the Spenserian stanza Byron was never quite at ease. It was only after attempting many styles, with more or less success, that at last he hit upon a st...yle entirely his own — entirely fitted to express all the various and discordant tones of his way- ward spirit. The note which he first struck in Beppo, he carried to its full compass in Don Juan. In the ' ottava rima ' — that light, fluent, plastic measure which he made at once and for ever his own — he found a fit vehicle for the comic vein that had long slumbered within him, of which in his ^earlier poems he had given no sign, as well as for the satire that he commanded, a satire sometimes light and playful, oftener scornful L3 148 POETIC STYLE IN [v.
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