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Acts of Godfrey The Arts Desk The rhymed couplet has always been a beautiful tool for sabre-toothed social comment: the pungent Augustan verse of Dryden and Pope fashioned the form to a decasyllabic gleam, deploying rhyme to inflate and undercut, to slash and burn. |
Published on Wednesday 8th of February 2012 08:04:49 AM
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 The Guardian | Lord Byron, as pictured in a copy of a portrait by by Thomas Phillips ... The Guardian Byron is an immense poet, combining the best of Augustan wit and intellect with the best of sensuously and politically charged Romanticism. For me, he is by far the outstanding Romantic, and he is as readable and relevant today as ever. |
Published on Wednesday 8th of February 2012 08:04:49 AM
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