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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... later to be the man who coined the term ' Her Majesty's Opposition ' for the largest minority party in Parliament , was a very different man from Byron . Although able to drink and jape if necessary , Hobhouse was in many ways a serious ...
... later use of ottava rima , as we shall see later ( in chapter 8 ) . It is interesting to note that Byron was however interested even at this early stage of his poetic career in flexibility and the possibilities of quick changes of mood ...
... later to adopt for what are now regarded as his most significant works . This stanza consists of eight lines of decasyllables rhyming ABABABCC . The thrice - repeated rhymes make it difficult in English , and tend to throw into relief ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |