Bernstein 221: "The project of particularizing, historicizing, and ideologizing the interpretation of poetry must especially, even primarily, address itself to the stylistic features of the work. That means refusing to interpret formal dynamics as divorced from the historical and theatrical arena in which they are situated"
see Jerome McGann's "useful model for reading Byron's formal strategies," for instance (summarized on 221)
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