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- adjective Of or relating to Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a lengthy narrative poem published between 1812 and 1818.
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Harold + -ian
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Particularly in its last few stanzas, Clare's Don Juan inverts the assumption that "poets are born" and mocks the Haroldian faith that "Poets and Poesy are aspirations/Of minds superior to the common lot" (LP 125), reducing verse-making to sheer materiality:
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