Poet/Reader Intimacy in Lord Byron’s ‘Lara, A Tale’

T.S. Eliot once wrote that ‘Byron added nothing to the language […] and developed nothing in the meaning, of individual words’. Even after putting my love for Lord Byron aside, I’m not sure that I agree. Lord Byron’s poetry is a poetry of suggestion and of withholding, of teasing and withdrawing. Particularly in his poems […]