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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... hand , what might now to the Western European reader seem the purely personal themes of dislocation and thwarted love are part of a world of violence and quasi - feudal authority which would be very recognizable to the European who had ...
... hand , since the point of the poem is the rejection of claims to authority . But the latter part of the poem self - consciously uses the myth as a symbol , and thus distances itself from taking it as a given absolute ( as something ...
... hand , Julia and Adeline are two versions of Byronic realism - compromisers , diplomats of the world , but with a residual nostalgia for certainty . It is of Adeline that Byron coins the term ' mobility ' , often seen as a key ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |