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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... follow this and which close the poem , full of the mock- archaisms of Canto I - ' sandal - shoon and scallop - shell ' - and of the dramatization of failure , seem an almost deliberate tossing of the old manner to the winds . Byron ...
... follow slips from my Whatever follows ne'ertheless may be As àpropos of hope or retrospection , reflection : As though the lurking thought had follow'd free . All present life is but an Interjection , An ' Oh ! ' or ' Ah ! ' of joy or ...
... follow the ' unities ' Byron champions , but in the tightness of its thematic structure it follows them in spirit , while allowing itself Shakespearean changes of mood and place . Faliero and Foscari are both claustrophobic , and , if ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |