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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... 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 by the bitterness of the separation . Hobhouse had ...
... sometimes sounding as if life at root is contingent , sometimes as if it is the consequence of original sin . But the duty to create , against all the odds , is consistent : Yet let us ponder boldly - ' tis a base Abandonment of reason ...
... sometimes seen to a great extent in our own . It may be defined as an excessive susceptibility of immediate impressions – at the same time without losing the past ; and is , though sometimes apparently useful to the possessor , a most ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |