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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... course very much alive today . It is however typical of Byron at this period of his life that , unlike the more judicious Hobhouse , he unreservedly took the side of the foreigner with the simple moral case , rather than the British ...
... course Canto XV has more design than at first appears . Here is the last stanza : Between two worlds life hovers like a star , ' Twixt night and morn , upon the horizon's verge : How little do we know that which we are ! How less what ...
... course is once again the terminal through- rhyme in the second stanza quoted ( ' -on ' in both ' a ' and ' b ' rhymes ) . Not to mention the use of two words to carry the penultimate rhyme of both rhymes : vension / many soon / benison ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |