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Wordsworth’s Poetry

“She Walks in Beauty” at once draws on and refutes Wordsworth and Coleridge’s revitalization of the lyric form. Placing Lord Byron’s work in relation to Wordsworth’s poetry is thus very important.

Keats’s Odes

Although written on a variety of subjects, Keats’s odes share with Byron’s poem a certain investment in philosophical truths. Beauty is a particularly important shared theme, and it comes up in several of Keats’s odes—above all in his “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”

William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience

Byron has little in common with Blake in terms of style and theme. However, they are both outliers in the already (admittedly) idiosyncratic ranks of the British Romantic poets. For this reason alone, it’s worth bringing their work into conversation—or, at least, into a comparative perspective.

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