ByronNorthcote House, 2000 - 86 pages After Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim of the myth of his own personality. Now he is read and studied both for his complex politics and as a forerunner of many of the ideas and techniques more usually associated with post-modernism. Bone tackles the critical problems both of the populism of much of Byron's early work, and conversely of the sophisticated comedy of Beppo, Don Juan and The Vision of Judgement. He argues that for all its contradictoriness Byron's poetic mind develops organically, and that the scintillating technique of the late works grow out of the profoundly modern world-view, relativistic and secular, which had developed through his early years. Byron's writing are seen as a vital area for post-ideological and new found criticism. |
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... Darkness had no need Of aid from them - She was the universe ( ' Darkness ' , ll . 69–82 ) This nihilistic vision makes no attempt to convert itself into something it is not . This negative will not print positive . Here there is not ...
Drummond Bone. and darkness taken literally , without literary transformation . The effect is indeed shocking , in an almost obscene way . The mirror image of ' Darkness ' can be found in ' Prometheus ' , also from that strange and ...
... and Michael have a kind of humane professional regard for each other : Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness There passed a mutual glance of great politeness . Then he address'd himself to Satan : ' Why My 70 BYRON.
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |