The essay discusses Auden’s relationship with Byron, examining his critical writings on the poet and his long poem, Letter to Lord Byron. Although the poet’s engagement with the poetry of Yeats is more famous, the essay suggests that Auden felt an equally important bond with the romantic poet; in Auden’s view Byron, like himself, had been forced to reject a falsified version of himself, one that had made him famous, in favour of a less charismatic but more authentic role. His verse-letter to the poet, in which he adopts a stanza-form and a tone similar to those that characterise Byron’s greatest poetry, opens the way for the more discursive poetry of Auden’s later style.

Masters of the Airy Manner: Auden and Byron

DOWLING, Gregory
2010-01-01

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The essay discusses Auden’s relationship with Byron, examining his critical writings on the poet and his long poem, Letter to Lord Byron. Although the poet’s engagement with the poetry of Yeats is more famous, the essay suggests that Auden felt an equally important bond with the romantic poet; in Auden’s view Byron, like himself, had been forced to reject a falsified version of himself, one that had made him famous, in favour of a less charismatic but more authentic role. His verse-letter to the poet, in which he adopts a stanza-form and a tone similar to those that characterise Byron’s greatest poetry, opens the way for the more discursive poetry of Auden’s later style.
2010
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