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05-26-2022, 06:24 AM
George Simmers
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But he's annoying when he says Auden wrote “Letter to Lord Byron” (1937) in a variant of the ottava rima of Byron’s “Don Juan.” Not so. He wrote it in Rime Royal, a much older stanza form, introduced into English by Chaucer.
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