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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Accordingly , the Whig poet - narrator's ' rhetoric must ingratiate him with the reader and establish his case as fair and reasonable . Byron settles on several means to achieve these ends . His narrator is quick to display courtesy ...
a protagonist sometimes successfully sets a screen for Byron the person but sometimes poses problems for the poet or gets in the way of the narrator . For instance , in canto 1 , “ The Girl of Cadiz , ” an interjected love lyric that on ...
( 2:25 ) Byron's prose comments on the battle , transmitted in an 11 August letter to his mother , strike a note close to the narrator's sour sense of human waste : “ I like the Spaniards much , you have heard of the battle near Madrid ...