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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... Edleston , the Cambridge choirboy whose comradeship Byron enjoyed on terms less equal than those prevailing in his schoolboy friendships , is commemorated with more condescension than appears in the later “ Thyrza ” lyrics written ...
As would later so often be the case in Don Juan , Byron's candid exploration of concrete particulars ends up revealing the hollowness of abstract generalities . The antithesis to the aged and melancholy Bonnivard , who ends by admitting ...
In a M. K. Joseph's words , he was already moving towards the separation of hero and narrator which was to become , later , the master - device of Don Juan . ” The route quasi - Spenserian Harold follows and the sights he sees are ...