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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... Spirit may oppose Itself - an equal to all woes , And a firm will , and a deep sense , Which even in torture can descry Its own concentered recompense , Triumphant where it dares defy , And making Death a Victory . ( ' Prometheus ' , ll ...
... spirit hath painted It never hath found but in thee . From the wreck of the past , which hath perish'd , Thus much I at least may recall , It hath taught me that what I most cherish'd Deserved to be dearest of all : In the desert a ...
... Spirit Reluctant mortal ! ... Can it be that thou Art thus in love with life ? the very life That made thee wretched ? Manfred Thou false fiend , thou liest ! My life is in its last hour , - that I know , Nor would redeem a moment of ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |