People’s democratic republic of algeria ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research University of Tlemcen Faculty of Letters and Languages Department of English Orientalism in Lord Byron's Turkish Tale

2.4. The Oriental Source of Byron's Oriental Diction: 
 
Between 1740 and 1840 a considerable number of additions to the 
English poetic vocabulary were made, framed with an animus to refine the 
language in England. It was the result of the Romantic Movement that the 
poets attempted to increase the breadth of their diction by starring out of 
their own provinces. The East was Lord Byron's subject of poetry, and 
since "the ideal poem is a one which expresses Eastern life or Eastern 
feeling in Orientalized diction" (Osborne 4), an examination of Byron's 
Oriental diction as backed up by other Oriental sources is consequently 
required.
2.4.1. The Oriental Source: 
Byron's chronicle of his Oriental readings mirrors a ten years old child 
who enjoyed reading the fables of the 
Arabian Nights
. A child fondness 
with magical folktales grew gradually to include more sophisticated 

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Chapter Two: Orientalism in Lord Byron's Turkish Tale 
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Oriental accounts, culminating later in a travel to the East and, 
subsequently, in the composition of the Turkish Tales: 
Knolles-Cantemlr-de Tott - Lady M.W. Montagu- 
Hawklns's translation from Mlgnot's History of the 
Turks - the Arabian Nights - all travels or histories or 
books upon the East I could meet with, I had read, as 
well as Rycaut, before I was ten years old. I think the 
Arabian Nights first.
(quoted by Kidwai 37). 
The bibliography of Byron's Oriental readings has been presented
mainly by E.H. Coleridge, Jerome McGann and Harold Wiener in their 
editions of Byron's poetical works to refer to the Oriental works which 
Byron read or supposedly read. In studying the sources which he relied on 
in his poetry; there was always an emphasis on the Turkish Tales as strictly 
grounded in the Orient. In a note to Lord Holland about 
The Giaour
he 
spoke of his intensive knowledge of Oriental life: 
...My head is full of Oriental names and scenes - ...It is 
my story and my East - (and here I am venturing with 
no one to contend against - from having seen what my 
contemporaries must copy from the drawings of others 
only) that I want to make palpable - and my skull is so 
crammed from having lived much with them and in 
their own way...
with their scenes and manners… 
(quoted by Cochran 61).
He had also presented some guides to the Oriental origins of the poem "...I 
heard it by accident recited by one of the coffee-house story-tellers who 
abound in the Levant" and for a better understanding he wrote some 
explanatory notes: "...For the contents of some of the notes I am Indebted