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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... Hero's narrative . Were his crimes to be defined they would be crimes . But as mysteries they transcend the sordid everyday . A series of verse narratives in exotic Eastern locations became the ' follow - ups ' to the success of Childe ...
... hero's personality into the distinctly unreal life of the Turkish Tales that kept him famous , it was to be the inner world of his shorter poems that kept Byron in anthologies and textbooks from Victorian times to the beginning of the ...
... heroes . Mozart's anti - hero rises to Faustian defiance at the end when the Commendatore's statue comes to life , but Donny Johnny ( as Byron sometimes styled him in correspond- ence ) resists the flow of things only under extreme ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |