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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... meaning while withholding it ( deeper than what ? browner than what ? - everything and nothing in this world ) , also suggest movement . This moment ' Which follows the decline of day ' ( days will always decline ) is not quite so ...
... Meaning in this view of things is separated from the real . At the centre of the beam of light thrown by the work of the poet there is an emptiness . For the next few years in the shorter poems this emptiness becomes a palpable presence ...
... meaning tries to ' break free ' from the stanza . If meaning is to fulfil our normal – and Romantic – expectations of - it , it should be independent of its physical medium 66 BYRON.
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |