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The Bowles letters have too often been accepted as mere hoaxes of the poet in a rampant , devastating mood , or as the fruit of a sudden petulant irritation , or as another proof of his instability and inconsistency .
The Bowles letters have too often been accepted as mere hoaxes of the poet in a rampant , devastating mood , or as the fruit of a sudden petulant irritation , or as another proof of his instability and inconsistency .
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In a short while he had doubled the length of his poem , but this time in a resentful , bitter mood , that hit for the sake of hitting , in an explosion of wrath . Moore reports in his Life , that after the first twenty lines of the ...
In a short while he had doubled the length of his poem , but this time in a resentful , bitter mood , that hit for the sake of hitting , in an explosion of wrath . Moore reports in his Life , that after the first twenty lines of the ...
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And yet the mood of the period is distinctly Juanesque . The Island reflects it in the character and speech of Ben Bunting in the midst of a romantic paradise , a realism of tone and dialect that might have marred a more beautiful poem ...
And yet the mood of the period is distinctly Juanesque . The Island reflects it in the character and speech of Ben Bunting in the midst of a romantic paradise , a realism of tone and dialect that might have marred a more beautiful poem ...
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| Title | Byron: Romantic Paradox |
| Author | William Jonathan Calvert |
| Edition | reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Russell & Russell, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 235 pages |
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