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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... physical beauty , and returns in its last line to stasis . Stanza 3 is organized more simply in a two - part structure rather than a three - part structure , and moves from the physical and from action to the moral beyond action ( from ...
... physical sours the picture of the physical beauty around him . It is almost as if it is the mind which is the problem - there will be peace only when ' dust is as it should be ' , and the striving for immortality is over , though this ...
... physical materiality , but almost an equal : And I have loved thee , Ocean ! And my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne , like thy bubbles , onward ; from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers - they to me Were a delight ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |