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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Still others are political poems — biblical in their details but relevant by inference to Napoleonic Europe ( “ Vision of Belshazzar , " " The Destruction of Semnacherib " ) or Regency England ( “ Herod's Lament for Mariamne " ) .
The meter reminiscent of Moore , the tribute to his talent in the poem's final phrase , and his involvement in the poem's first publication all seem to suggest Byron's sense that he and Moore shared similar if not identical feelings on ...
Evolving over six months ( September 1812 to March 1813 ) and through 7 of the 14 editions that preceded its incorporation in the first collected edition of Byron's poems ( 1815 ) , the poem grew by accretion . Writing on 26 August 1813 ...