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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... mind at peace ' and ' innocent ' ) , the closure of which is gently insisted on by the repetition in the line opening ( ' A mind / A heart ' ) . Presented schematically , this could be represented ABA , BAB , AB , but the B - element is ...
... mind over the circumstances of life . For Shelley , a change in mental attitude could change the whole tenor of life . Although Byron was never able to take this in the almost literal way that Shelley at his most optimistic maintained ...
... mind diseased , And fevers into false creations : - where , Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized ? In him alone . Can Nature shew so fair ? Where are the charms and virtues which we dare Conceive in boyhood and pursue as ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |