Byron: Wrath and RhymeAlan Norman Bold, Alan Bold Vision, 1983 - 216 pages Byron has been a notoriously difficult poet to place and the variety of the man is celebrated in this collection of essays, each of which illuminates and explores a crucial Byronic issue. Tom Scott discusses Byron as a Scottish poet; Walter Perrie investigates the Byronic philosophy, the composer Ronald Stevenson presents Byron as lyricist; J. Drummond Bone dwells on the idea of freedom in Byron; Jenni Calder writes on Byron and women; Edwin Morgan offers a piece entitled "Voice, Tone and Transition in Don Juan;" J. F. Hendry writes on Byron and the cult of personality; Geoffrey Carnall writes on Byron and role of the intellectual; and Philip Hobsbaum offers a study of Byron and the English tradition. |
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... come off . A contrast between this and the original clearly would operate to the younger poet's disadvantage ... comes early , in 1810. But Pope had written imitations that were technically flawless at a far earlier period of his ...
... come off . A contrast between this and the original clearly would operate to the younger poet's disadvantage ... comes early , in 1810. But Pope had written imitations that were technically flawless at a far earlier period of his ...
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... comes , a monk disguises himself as a nun and insinuates himself into a convent where he impregnates all the inmates ... come across the work of some , at least , of his seventeenth - century predecessors . There was Edward Fairfax ...
... comes , a monk disguises himself as a nun and insinuates himself into a convent where he impregnates all the inmates ... come across the work of some , at least , of his seventeenth - century predecessors . There was Edward Fairfax ...
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... come to him for a few minutes on the Woolsack as is the custom of his friends ) ' Damn them ! they'll have it now , by G - d ! —the vote that is just come in will give it them . ' 14 If Byron had been reluctant to leave ' the sound of ...
... come to him for a few minutes on the Woolsack as is the custom of his friends ) ' Damn them ! they'll have it now , by G - d ! —the vote that is just come in will give it them . ' 14 If Byron had been reluctant to leave ' the sound of ...
Contents
Contents | 7 |
Byron as a Scottish Poet by Tom Scott | 17 |
Byron and the English Tradition | 37 |
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