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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... Venice . From this period date poems such as The Prisoner of Chillon , ' Prometheus ' , ' Darkness ' , ' The Dream ' , [ Epistle to Augusta ] , and Childe Harold III . Manfred is begun . 12 January , birth of Allegra ( initially called ...
... Venice as its proclaimed destination ) took him to the field of the battle of Waterloo , and on down the Rhine to Switzerland . This was to be the trajectory of Childe Harold III . He spent the notoriously wet summer of 1816 in ...
... Venice , but sometimes speculating on a return to England if there should be a political revolution , and sometimes too complaining that his life still seemed a directionless exile , filled only by the bitterness of the separation ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |