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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... poet's parents had sporadically taken the name Gordon , possibly to ensure the Gordon inheritance . His father , John Byron , was from a junior branch of an English aristocratic family , the Byrons of Newstead and Rochdale , and the ...
Drummond Bone. debased . The poet ( as will the pilgrim ) nevertheless claims privileged knowledge of the source of our civilization . A sceptical note too is introduced the Muse may only be a - fable of the poet , rather than a poetic ...
... poet Tom Moore , full of admiration for Venice , but sometimes speculating on a return to England if there should be a political revolution , and sometimes too complaining that his life still seemed a directionless exile , filled only ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |