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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Page 128
... influences into the heart of this generation , even like those which are breathed from the heart of Nature herself ... influence which is moved not , but moves . Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world . In the preface to ...
... influences into the heart of this generation , even like those which are breathed from the heart of Nature herself ... influence which is moved not , but moves . Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world . In the preface to ...
Page 142
... influence on Nietzsche - and the Byronic hero as prototype for the Übermensch - that led Bertrand Russell to devote a chapter in his History of Western Philosophy to the subject of Byronism and its influence on the history of ideas ...
... influence on Nietzsche - and the Byronic hero as prototype for the Übermensch - that led Bertrand Russell to devote a chapter in his History of Western Philosophy to the subject of Byronism and its influence on the history of ideas ...
Page 143
... influence confined to the literati . As Andrew Rutherford has observed : Byron became an ideal , an almost mythical ... influence had already waned . For the rest of the century his reputation was eclipsed by those of Keats , Shelley and ...
... influence confined to the literati . As Andrew Rutherford has observed : Byron became an ideal , an almost mythical ... influence had already waned . For the rest of the century his reputation was eclipsed by those of Keats , Shelley and ...
Contents
Contents | 7 |
Byron as a Scottish Poet by Tom Scott | 17 |
Byron and the English Tradition | 37 |
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