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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Hours of Idleness published . Makes friends at Cambridge with John Cam Hobhouse and C. S. Matthews . Leaves Cambridge for London demimonde . 1808 Anonymous reviewer ridicules Hours of Idleness in the Edinburgh Review .
“ Having claimed in his preface to have crossed his poetic Rubicon , Byron declares that now that he's on the public ( that is , published ) side of the river he will “ submit without a murmur ” if the critical verdict goes against him ...
a sioned and published it , the conclusion dismisses Napoléon to his isle of exile and contrasts him unfavorably with the liberator Prometheus , foe to the king of Olympus as Napoléon had been to the crowned heads of Europe : “ He in ...