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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... turn , persuade the authority to commute the sentence of death to one of exile . This episode is characteristic of the ' man of action ' in Byron , not at all afraid to become involved in possibly dangerous situations . It also ...
... turn'd below , Gazing upon the ground , with thoughts which dare not glow ? But this is not my theme ; and I return To that which is immediate , and require Those who find contemplation in the urn , To look on One , whose dust was once ...
... turn to the first three lines of the penultimate stanza of the poem as we have it : I leave the thing a problem , like all things : - The morning came - and breakfast , tea and toast , Of which most men partake , but no one sings ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |