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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... interest for Byron's readers lay in the ' ennui ' of the Childe himself , and in the unorthodox nature of the political opinions shared by Childe and narrator , both of whom the readers instinctively identified with the author . The ...
... interest of their own , but represent an extreme reaction - either then in the nineteenth , or now in the twentieth century . On the other hand , what might now to the Western European reader seem the purely personal themes of ...
... interest in the contemporary world evident from Childe Harold onwards . Though under stress from the metaphysics of this middle period , this interest never entirely vanishes . The Prisoner of Chillon itself places as much value on ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |