Ababbcc : Auden et Byron sans rime ni raison

• Published in: Polysèmes
• Main Author: Porée, Marc
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: SAIT 2022
• Subjects: correspondance; rime royale; autobiographie; années trente; lignée; conversation; light verse; poésie; mythe; romantisme; hommage; correspondence; rhyme royal; autobiography; the thirties; lineage; poetry; myth; Romanticism; homage; litt; lang; Detour; Isherwood; Rime; The Detour; Iceland
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/polysemes/9172

Declined in seven entries, corresponding to the seven lines (generally in iambic pentameters) of the rhyme royal, the paper deliberately aligns itself with the letter, and hopefully, with the spirit of W.H. Auden’s 1937 “Letter to Lord Byron”, composed while he was travelling in Iceland with his fri...