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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... individual's freedom is terminally threatened . But like Manfred the individual's responsibility to himself is the sticking point . Hence Don Juan does refuse Gulbayez ( he is at his most ' manly ' then when dressed as a woman ) . In ...
... individual can judge himself . It is absurd , but also dangerous , to believe that one has privileged access to a truth which can be applied to others . And so in Byron's poem George , though no hero , is also no villain his private ...
... individual life which leads him to take it , and his refusal of authority in the name of freedom which leads him into an act which deprives his brother of all freedom . Cain is taken by Lucifer on a voyage into space where he learns not ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |