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Author | : Fiona MacCarthy |
Publisher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 864 |
Release | : 2014-10-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1444799878 |
Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive. She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the Mediterranean and the East, throwing light on his relationships with adolescent boys - a hidden subject in earlier biographies. While paying due attention to the compelling tragicomedy of Byron's marriage, his incestuous love for his half-sister Augusta and the clamorous attention of his female fans, she gives a new importance to his close male friendships, in particular that with his publisher John Murray. She tells the full story of their famous disagreement, ending as a rift between them as Byron's poetry became more recklessly controversial. Byron was a celebrity in his own lifetime, becoming a 'superstar' in 1812, after the publication of Childe Harold. The Byron legend grew to unprecedented proportions after his death in the Greek War of Independence at the age of thirty-six. The problem for a biographer is sifting the truth from the sentimental, the self-serving and the spurious. Fiona MacCarthy has overcome this to produce an immaculately researched biography, which is also her refreshing personal view.
Author | : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
Publisher | : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday |
Total Pages | : 1208 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favourite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written entirely in ottava rima stanza form, Byron's Don Juan blends high drama with earthy humour, outrageous satire of his contemporaries (in particular Wordsworth and Southey) and sharp mockery of Western societies, with England coming under particular attack.
Author | : George Gordon Byron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2014-09-01 |
Genre | : Don Juan (Legendary character) |
ISBN | : 9781910170045 |
'A Modern Don Juan' follows the sexual adventures of Byron's picaresque anti-hero in the 21st century. Mixing low comedy and high seriousness, the book follows night-club DJ and picaresque anti-hero Donald Johnson as he stumbles from one romantic disaster to the next. Along the way, the authors pass comment on the customs and common-sense of the contemporary world.
Author | : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780435150341 |
Author | : Jane Stabler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2014-06-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317884515 |
Often seen as the exception to generalisations about Romanticism, Byron's poetry - and its intricate relationship with a brilliant, scandalous life - has remained a source of controversy throughout the twentieth century. This book brings together recent work on Byron by leading British and American scholars and critics, guiding undergraduate students and sixth-form pupils through the different ways in which new literary theory has enriched readings of Byron's work, and showing how his poetry offers a rewarding focus for questions about the relationship between historical contexts and literary form in the Romantic period. Diverse and fresh perspectives on canonical texts such as Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Manfred are included together with stimulating analyses of less well-known narrative poems, lyrics and dramas. A clearly structured introduction traces key developments in Byron criticism and locates the essays within wider debates in Romantic studies. Detailed headnotes to each essay and a guide to further reading help to orientate the reader and offer pointers for further discussion. The collection will enable students of English literature, Romantic studies and nineteenth-century cultural studies to assess the contribution that different critical methodologies have made to our understanding of individual poems by Byron, as well as concepts like the Byronic hero and evolving definitions of Romanticism.
Author | : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Poets, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Helen Vendler |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0674044622 |
Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be followed by rethinking, Dickinson experimenting with plot to characterize life's unfolding, and Yeats thinking in images, using montage in lieu of argument. With customary lucidity and spirit, Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Her work argues against the reduction of poetry to its (frequently well-worn) themes and demonstrates, instead, that there is always in admirable poetry a strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original.
Author | : Elizabeth French Boyd |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317230388 |
When this book was published in 1945, interest in Byron’s poetry and appreciation of his titanic role in Romanticism had been steadily increasing. Of all his vast poetic production, Don Juan, the last and greatest of his major works, offers the highest rewards to the modern reader. It not only stands out among his poems as the best expression of Byron, but it ranks with the great poems of the nineteenth century as representative of the era, and of modern European civilization. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
Author | : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2020-05-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780371949252 |
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Author | : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 1124 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9780192840400 |
This volume brings together a collection of Byron's poetry and prose, including poems, letters, journals, and transcripts of conversations, and gives the reader an insight into his work and thinking.