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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If humanity's fate is “ wretchedness , ” its force , in this lyric , is an opposing will “ equal to all woes . ... Brave but believably human , Bonnivard ( who derives more from Byron's imagination than from the historical Bonivard's ...
But a chamois hunter providentially or fortuitously arrives on the scene in time to stop his plunge , and the hunter's perspective takes account of human interconnectedness : " though aweary of thy life , / Stain not our pure vales with ...
Lightning , nature's potent , sympatheticseeming enactment of an elemental human feeling that both kindles and blasts , manifests itself in other writings that rose out of or reflected Byron's turbulent feelings of the time : his ...