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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... once stood sanctified in stone ; But these had fallen , not when the friars fell , But in the war which struck Charles from his throne In " The Fall of the House of Usher " contradictory , but for the moment equilibrated , forces are ...
... once stood sanctified in stone ; But these had fallen , not when the friars fell , But in the war which struck Charles from his throne In " The Fall of the House of Usher " contradictory , but for the moment equilibrated , forces are ...
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... once perhaps too much . The dynamic nature of the fateful process to which Byron's dwelling and his family are subordinate is effectively thematized by the wind ' winged from one point of heaven , ' that ' voice to charm ' that Byron ...
... once perhaps too much . The dynamic nature of the fateful process to which Byron's dwelling and his family are subordinate is effectively thematized by the wind ' winged from one point of heaven , ' that ' voice to charm ' that Byron ...
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... once balanced but now fallen into disequilibrium ; and it is these moods , ideas , and tensions that are at work in Poe's tale , too , constituting what is really remarkable in it . Writing about the " Elegy on Newstead Abbey ...
... once balanced but now fallen into disequilibrium ; and it is these moods , ideas , and tensions that are at work in Poe's tale , too , constituting what is really remarkable in it . Writing about the " Elegy on Newstead Abbey ...
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