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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... finally returned from his travels , he failed to manage to visit his mother before she died , which on top of their poor relations , left him with no small burden of guilt . Other deaths of friends haunted him too . He took up his seat ...
... finally summoned the energy to set off on a tour to Bologna , Florence and Rome . It is this trip , together with his first experience of Venice , which forms the basis of Childe Harold Canto IV . On the journey he begins to wonder what ...
... finally sold . - Early in 1818 Byron rented the Palazzo Mocenigo on the Grand Canal . He had also rented another house on the Brenta which he invited Shelley to use . Meantime , Shelley had brought Allegra ( and Claire , whom Byron ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |