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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... sense of modern conspiratorial distance from the Childe and his epic history , yet also continues to sound the epic bass - line , the sostenuto or leitmotif as it were of a lost but highly glamorous world of gods and heroes . This note ...
... sense of freedom , and a not - quite - won struggle for resignation . Byronic tropes litter the poem - the Promethean desire to leave the mortal ' clay ' behind and the temptation of suicide to be found in Manfred ; the sense of the ...
... sense of significance to life , but does not come with the pretensions of religious revelation . Is this significantly different from stanza 6 with which we began our account of the poem ? If we simply interpret the two stanzas ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |