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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Page 29
... freedom as a mental state , the essence of which can only be revealed when the physical body is imprisoned , the poem actually goes on to make the very practical point that imprisoning opponents often has the reverse of the desired ...
... freedom as a mental state , the essence of which can only be revealed when the physical body is imprisoned , the poem actually goes on to make the very practical point that imprisoning opponents often has the reverse of the desired ...
Page 30
... freedom is a uniquely private matter , a sort of mixture of Haroldian indulgence mixed with the defiance of the ... freedom with a sigh . ( Prisoner of Chillon , ll . 381–94 ) ― The last line above the last line of the poem is not only ...
... freedom is a uniquely private matter , a sort of mixture of Haroldian indulgence mixed with the defiance of the ... freedom with a sigh . ( Prisoner of Chillon , ll . 381–94 ) ― The last line above the last line of the poem is not only ...
Page 79
... freedom which leads him into an act which deprives his brother of all freedom . Cain is taken by Lucifer on a voyage into space where he learns not the secrets of the Universe , but rather his own minuscule place within it . The search ...
... freedom which leads him into an act which deprives his brother of all freedom . Cain is taken by Lucifer on a voyage into space where he learns not the secrets of the Universe , but rather his own minuscule place within it . The search ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |