ByronAfter Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim of the myth of his own personality. Now he is read and studied both for his complex politics and as a forerunner of many of the ideas and techniques more usually associated with post-modernism. Bone tackles the critical problems both of the populism of much of Byron's early work, and conversely of the sophisticated comedy of Beppo, Don Juan and The Vision of Judgement. He argues that for all its contradictoriness Byron's poetic mind develops organically, and that the scintillating technique of the late works grow out of the profoundly modern world-view, relativistic and secular, which had developed through his early years. Byron's writing are seen as a vital area for post-ideological and new found criticism. |
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... Italy , and though they are interwoven , we will deal only with one in this chapter his long - term affair with the Countess Guiccioli . His involvement in Italian politics we save until chapter 9 . - He met Teresa Guiccioli in Venice ...
... Italy and in Greece is easier to evaluate . In both places there was a preliminary task to be done , the morality of which was simple - the removal of an occupying power . Only when he became involved in the succeeding question - ' then ...
... Italy were soured by a row with Hunt and Mary Shelley over money , which left all sides embittered ( despite Byron's previous considerable generosity to both , or possibly because of it ) . On 21 July 1823 , in the company of Trelawny ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |