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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... simply had a personal presence in many countries . His travelling also took him into much closer contact with the daily life of the peoples whose lands he visited than most ' tourists ' or students , even those visiting for longer ...
... simply as a scepticism that the self could ever be so absorbed . More often than not , the poem seems unaware of this recurring oscillation . This oscillation then is its form , but not its content . I live not in myself , but I become ...
... simply interpret the two stanzas , perhaps not - art gives meaning to life . But if we are attentive to the tone of the two passages , there is a considerable difference . In the earlier the creativity is Promethean ; in the later ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |