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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... least amenable to analysis and evaluation because they involve such abrupt shifts not only of subject - matter but equally of tone and atmosphere , are nevertheless important in a long poem , whose length might well be thought to ...
... least amenable to analysis and evaluation because they involve such abrupt shifts not only of subject - matter but equally of tone and atmosphere , are nevertheless important in a long poem , whose length might well be thought to ...
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... least , Godwin's Political Justice seemed to have based a utopian polity on irresistible reasoning ; after that , Malthus's Essay on Population threatened to annihilate Godwin's reasoning with all the force that mathematical ...
... least , Godwin's Political Justice seemed to have based a utopian polity on irresistible reasoning ; after that , Malthus's Essay on Population threatened to annihilate Godwin's reasoning with all the force that mathematical ...
Page 129
... least partly the effect of disappointment with his own abortive parliamentary career . At least a part of himself would have enjoyed being an acknowledged legislator . The main outline of his career in the House of Lords is well known ...
... least partly the effect of disappointment with his own abortive parliamentary career . At least a part of himself would have enjoyed being an acknowledged legislator . The main outline of his career in the House of Lords is well known ...
Contents
Contents | 7 |
Byron as a Scottish Poet by Tom Scott | 17 |
Byron and the English Tradition | 37 |
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