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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Also present in a number of the poems in Fugitive Pieces , most notably the amatory verses “ To Mary , ” is frank eroticism of a sort that gave the gentle readers of Byron's private volume pause : Now , by my soul , ' tis most delight ...
In the former , Byron incorporates sentiments from the Italian poet Tasso's works into his own verses and then puts those verses into the mouth of Tasso , whom Alphonso II , Marquess of Este ( great - great - grandson of Niccolò III ...
On 3 July 1818 , having settled into a congenial mode of life in Italy , Byron exchanged English Spenserian verse for Italian ottava rima , the form he had first tried out in the verse tale Beppo in the months following the completion ...