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 119
... literary hero at last with an opportunity to break out into action , and to escape from tedious and sterile social demands . What is Byron's status as a heroic figure , and how can we assess the hero as lover ? There is no doubt that ...
... literary hero at last with an opportunity to break out into action , and to escape from tedious and sterile social demands . What is Byron's status as a heroic figure , and how can we assess the hero as lover ? There is no doubt that ...
Page 159
... literary and political . In a lengthy passage on Tasso and his patron , Alfonso of Este , Byron compares political and literary power directly and concludes that , in the long run , the latter is more effective ( IV , xxxv − ix ) ...
... literary and political . In a lengthy passage on Tasso and his patron , Alfonso of Este , Byron compares political and literary power directly and concludes that , in the long run , the latter is more effective ( IV , xxxv − ix ) ...
Page 164
... literary imperatives . Ironically , it was precisely that marriage of personal circumstance to literary form which enabled Byron - however fleetingly and precariously — to resolve in his life and work the core dilemma of Romanticism ...
... literary imperatives . Ironically , it was precisely that marriage of personal circumstance to literary form which enabled Byron - however fleetingly and precariously — to resolve in his life and work the core dilemma of Romanticism ...
Contents
Contents | 7 |
Byron as a Scottish Poet by Tom Scott | 17 |
Byron and the English Tradition | 37 |
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