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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Page 103
... mirror . " ( 447 ) The narrator catches sight of what he first thinks are his blood - stained features -- " Thus it appeared , I say , but was not . It was my antagonist -- it was Wilson , who then stood before me not a line in all the ...
... mirror . " ( 447 ) The narrator catches sight of what he first thinks are his blood - stained features -- " Thus it appeared , I say , but was not . It was my antagonist -- it was Wilson , who then stood before me not a line in all the ...
Page 128
... mirror between them , reflecting their true natures . Poe invites us to use that simile in scene iv itself . Of its one hundred and eleven lines , the first fifty - five are a conversa- tion between Lalage and her avaricious maid , a ...
... mirror between them , reflecting their true natures . Poe invites us to use that simile in scene iv itself . Of its one hundred and eleven lines , the first fifty - five are a conversa- tion between Lalage and her avaricious maid , a ...
Page 136
... mirror that probably merged with the large mirror in Byron's room at Cambridge . Perhaps then it is fair to say out of the failure of Politian grew Poe's greatest successes ; that the answer to the question , ' Why did Poe never finish ...
... mirror that probably merged with the large mirror in Byron's room at Cambridge . Perhaps then it is fair to say out of the failure of Politian grew Poe's greatest successes ; that the answer to the question , ' Why did Poe never finish ...
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