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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... Hobhouse was in many ways a serious soul , always fond of , but not always approving of , his aristocratic friend . Hobhouse's father was an MP , as was Hobhouse himself in later years . But politically Hobhouse was perhaps to prove ...
... Hobhouse , he unreservedly took the side of the foreigner with the simple moral case , rather than the British establishment with the more ' sophisticated ' position . This ' outsider's ' view of political issues remained one of Byron's ...
... Hobhouse by the husband of Byron's own lover of the time – and its message in that context was clear , much to Hobhouse's horror and Byron's amusement . - - But the adoption of ottava rima and various other devices mean that the ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |