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The introductory portion is hardly a reply to the Invariable Principles , but harks back to Bowles's 1806 edition of Pope , in which he had cast aspersions on the earlier poet's morality , and to which Byron had referred at length in ...
The introductory portion is hardly a reply to the Invariable Principles , but harks back to Bowles's 1806 edition of Pope , in which he had cast aspersions on the earlier poet's morality , and to which Byron had referred at length in ...
Page 70
Bowles has claimed that to be a great descriptive poet one must be first an accurate describer of external nature ... Bowles has placed nature poetry , indeed all other poetry , above the poetry of manners ; Byron retorts that it is not ...
Bowles has claimed that to be a great descriptive poet one must be first an accurate describer of external nature ... Bowles has placed nature poetry , indeed all other poetry , above the poetry of manners ; Byron retorts that it is not ...
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a The natural result was to accept poetry for what it was to him — a creation of emotion , a thing of momentary passion , a relief without any other ultimate purpose— “ the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake .
a The natural result was to accept poetry for what it was to him — a creation of emotion , a thing of momentary passion , a relief without any other ultimate purpose— “ the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake .
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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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