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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... sexual world by the younger of the two sisters who acted as what we would now call childminders . Whatever the dogmatics of his Aberdeen teachers , it is certain that Byron could not have spent his early childhood without gaining not ...
... sexual undertone . The second event occurred after his visit to Turkey . One day while bathing , Byron saw a party of soldiers carrying a girl in a sack , who was about to be drowned as a punishment for ' illicit love ' . Byron ...
... sexual freedom , and yet this not in a spirit of rebellion , but as part of an accepted social system . Moreover , as a sympathetic representa- tive of a major European power , he is made to feel he has some purchase on the political ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |