Sunday 23 March 2008

It's not just poems which have titles

While writing that last post, I was tempted to write 'George Gordon' rather than 'Lord Byron': it seems wrong to persist in using members of the aristocracy's titles when writing about poetry. But in the end I didn't, for the obvious reason that it wouldn't have been clear who I was talking about, so 'Screaming' Lord Byron it is. But my cap remains firmly undoffed (admiration for his poetic technique aside, you understand).

Intruiging further comment on the great man's name here. Seems it was more complex than I realised, but perhaps George Byron will do as his man-of-the-people name.

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