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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... sense of poetic vocation : composition of a casual sort was a solitary and social pastime for many educated people , and some uneducated ones , in Byron's day . Once he began writing and sharing his effusions , though , the praise and ...
... sense that the Byronic self fashions its image , rather than reflecting its essence , through such tales that " navigate impersonal structures . " 13 The self expressed or constructed through Beppo was saner and hap- pier than Byron had ...
... sense of human waste : " I like the Spaniards much , you have heard of the battle near Madrid , & in England they will call it a victory , a pretty victory ! two hundred officers and 5000 men killed all English , and the French in as ...