Lord ByronSeries Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts. TWAYNES UNITED STATES AUTHORS, ENGLISH AUTHORS, and WORLD AUTHORS Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writers work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading the Authors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives. Each volume features: a critical, interpretive study and explication of the authors works; a brief biography of the author; an accessible chronology outlining the life, work, and relevant historical background of the author; aids for further study -- complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography, and an index; and a readable style presented in a manageable length. |
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a political hostess who shows promise of being " the fair most fatal Juan ever met . ” In some ways , suspension amid rival beauties seems the best situation in which to leave Don Juan . Much earlier , however , Byron had professed to ...
Juan , declaiming his fidelity to Julia , is silenced by seasick retching . ... Juan's success in reaching shore depends less on heroic skill — the talent for swimming that he shares with Byron — than on natural randomness ( and of ...
Recognizing the inextricable connection of Don Juan's most brilliant touches with its most blasphemous features , John Murray , like Byron's literary advisers , resisted publishing the manuscript in unexpurgated form .