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How has Lord Byron influenced contemporary Western poetry?

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The most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics, George Gordon, Lord Byron, was likewise the most fashionable poet of the day. read more

And this is because much of what he represented in his greatest poem, Don Juan, is no longer valued in contemporary poetry. Humor has especially suffered in the current poetry scene. And while Byron was an experimenter in that Don Juan is a mock epic, the epic poetry he was mocking is so out of fashion now that the mockery falls on deaf ears. read more

As a young man, Alexander Pushkin was greatly influenced by the English Romantic poet Lord Byron, before outgrowing him to produce his masterpiece ‘Eugene Onegin,’ which challenges and extends Byron’s work. read more

In the September number of Blackwood’s "Odoherty" (John Gibson Lockhart) maintained that Cantos IX, X, and XI (published in August) were, "without exception, the first of Lord Byron’s works," containing the finest specimens of his serious poetry and of contemporary "ludicrous poetry"; Don Juan was "destined to hold a permanent rank" in British literature. read more

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