Acts of Godfrey - The Arts Desk

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.

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Lord Byron, as pictured in a copy of a portrait by by Thomas Phillips ... - The Guardian


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Lord Byron, as pictured in a copy of a portrait by by Thomas Phillips ...
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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.

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