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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... Fontenelle , or Fourier ; romantic literature's interest in the " last man " motif ; " Monk " Lewis's visit , which turned the Diodati circle's attention toward the gothic ; the unprecedentedly gloomy weather of a July and August in ...
For help with the latter , he turned to fellow poets — most successfully to Walter Scott , on whose recommendation he gained Charles Maturin's tragedy Bertram . From his exile abroad Byron sent Kinnaird a “ Monody on the Death of the ...
A few months after his separation from Annabella , Byron the man turned his back on the society that had turned its back on him and once again became a pilgrim . Again Childe Harold proved a congenial medium for Byron the poet ...