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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... verse and by reputation . What precisely he may have known about it , and , therefore , how it may have played a crucial part in the conception of " The Fall of the House of Usher " , are topics to be discussed in detail later . For the ...
... verse and by reputation . What precisely he may have known about it , and , therefore , how it may have played a crucial part in the conception of " The Fall of the House of Usher " , are topics to be discussed in detail later . For the ...
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... verse , the monarch Byron rules the kingdom of an ideal world , the poetess's , through the potency of his lyre . The poem might therefore well have been entitled " The Haunted Lady . " It requires but to turn the poetess into a palace ...
... verse , the monarch Byron rules the kingdom of an ideal world , the poetess's , through the potency of his lyre . The poem might therefore well have been entitled " The Haunted Lady . " It requires but to turn the poetess into a palace ...
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... verse about her , is set out at length . Equally important , it is treated as a series of events taking place as much in an ideal as in a real world . Irving depicts , on the one hand , the raptures of the poet in his youth giving way ...
... verse about her , is set out at length . Equally important , it is treated as a series of events taking place as much in an ideal as in a real world . Irving depicts , on the one hand , the raptures of the poet in his youth giving way ...
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