The Multi-man Genre and Poe's ByronsEdwin Mellen Press Limited, 1987 - 140 pages This work contends that Poe's use of Byron as antagonist was an example of the fragmentation of character - using reflections of Byron as seen by himself, by Poe, by his adulators and defamers - for literary effect. |
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... death by drowning in the Cam of his friend , Charles Skinner Matthews , " an extraordinary man , " he wrote to John Dallas ( September 7 , 1811 ) , " it has not entered into the heart of a stranger to conceive such a man ; there was the ...
... death by drowning in the Cam of his friend , Charles Skinner Matthews , " an extraordinary man , " he wrote to John Dallas ( September 7 , 1811 ) , " it has not entered into the heart of a stranger to conceive such a man ; there was the ...
Page 56
... death of several people , but one in particular . All thou couldst have of mine , stern Death ! thou hast ; The Parent , Friend , and now the more than Friend . John Edleston was clearly ' the more than friend . ' To him , Moore ...
... death of several people , but one in particular . All thou couldst have of mine , stern Death ! thou hast ; The Parent , Friend , and now the more than Friend . John Edleston was clearly ' the more than friend . ' To him , Moore ...
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... death , or ' strange ' to be dead to life ? One might wonder which when in the same letter Byron writes : " Peace be with the dead ! Regret cannot wake them . With a sigh to the departed , let us resume the dull business of life , in ...
... death , or ' strange ' to be dead to life ? One might wonder which when in the same letter Byron writes : " Peace be with the dead ! Regret cannot wake them . With a sigh to the departed , let us resume the dull business of life , in ...
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