Jie-Ae Yu

Byron’s Allusion to Plato’s Phaedo in “Lines Written Beneath an Elm, in the Churchyard of Harrow on the Hill”

Byron’s reworking of Plato’s Phaedo in the earliest phase of his writing career during 1806–1807 has received little critical attention from literary scholarship, although it is substantiated in his Harrow poems and further explored in his later poems of the 1810s and 1820s. This...