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 27
... of information , a scholarly interest in truth and knowledge for its own sake as well as for poetic material , a natural social researcher . One is reminded to some extent of the later MacDiarmid and his forays 27 Byron as a Scottish Poet.
... of information , a scholarly interest in truth and knowledge for its own sake as well as for poetic material , a natural social researcher . One is reminded to some extent of the later MacDiarmid and his forays 27 Byron as a Scottish Poet.
Page 87
... interest the Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck in the same idea.14 Earlier composers had based operas on libretti d'après Byron : Donizetti , Parisina ; Verdi , The Two Foscari . Neither was a success . What of Byron's own interest in music ...
... interest the Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck in the same idea.14 Earlier composers had based operas on libretti d'après Byron : Donizetti , Parisina ; Verdi , The Two Foscari . Neither was a success . What of Byron's own interest in music ...
Page 130
... interest in what he called his ' senatorial duties ' was challenged in the autumn of 1813 by an approach to him from a debtor imprisoned in the King's Bench gaol , one W. J. Baldwin . Baldwin wanted Byron to present a petition relating ...
... interest in what he called his ' senatorial duties ' was challenged in the autumn of 1813 by an approach to him from a debtor imprisoned in the King's Bench gaol , one W. J. Baldwin . Baldwin wanted Byron to present a petition relating ...
Contents
Contents | 7 |
Byron as a Scottish Poet by Tom Scott | 17 |
Byron and the English Tradition | 37 |
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