Beppo
poem by Byron
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English literature
- In English literature: The later Romantics: Shelley, Keats, and Byron
…less portentous writings, such as Beppo (1818), in which he first used the ottava rima form. The easy, nonchalant, biting style developed there became a formidable device in Don Juan and in his satire on Southey, The Vision of Judgment (1822).
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