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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... verse narratives in exotic Eastern locations became the ' follow - ups ' to the success of Childe Harold . These capitalized also on the success of Walter Scott's narrative poems , which they quickly displaced in popular favour . Just ...
... friend of John Hookham Frere , a poet who had used the Italian ottava rima verse form in English . Beppo , the first of the major poems in this form , the poems which modern critics 49 EXILE IN ITALY : REBUILDING A LIFE.
... verse . Art is partly artifice , and partly creation . It draws attention to our dependence on artifice , and yet makes sense of the trivial . If one is to attempt to sum up the experience of Don Juan , one could probably do little ...
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens Gavin Hopps,Jane Stabler Limited preview - 2006 |