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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... position . This ' outsider's ' view of political issues remained one of Byron's strong moral cards , though it was to be combined later with a far from naïve view of the ' objectivity ' involved . When Byron finally returned from his ...
... position was from ' normal ' . Recent biographical speculation has sensationalized Byron's sexuality ( for example his interest in Lady Oxford's 11 - year - old daughter when he was her mother's lover ) . There is a tendency either to ...
... position of absolute opposition , where his identity is that opposition , rather than Manfred's position of freedom even from opposition . Cain's self - absorption leads to the opposite of freedom - an obsession with oppression . Cain's ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |