Selections from the Poetry of Lord ByronH. Holt, 1900 - 412 pages |
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... und trüben Tagen Lied und Mut war schön und gross . II ' Faust , ' III , l . 1426 . NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 17-93.22 Substituted for copy , Cook ( Shapleigh fund ) SELECTIONS INTRODUCTION Two Aspects of Byron: the Man and the Poet.
... und trüben Tagen Lied und Mut war schön und gross . II ' Faust , ' III , l . 1426 . NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 17-93.22 Substituted for copy , Cook ( Shapleigh fund ) SELECTIONS INTRODUCTION Two Aspects of Byron: the Man and the Poet.
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... Poet II . The Personal Byron • • III . Relation to his Times . IV . Political Ideas : the Poet of Liberty • PAGE · V vi xiii V. Ideas on Life , Here and Hereafter , on God , and on Religion VI . Literary Relations VII . Literary Creed ...
... Poet II . The Personal Byron • • III . Relation to his Times . IV . Political Ideas : the Poet of Liberty • PAGE · V vi xiii V. Ideas on Life , Here and Hereafter , on God , and on Religion VI . Literary Relations VII . Literary Creed ...
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... poet , whom , it is true , we cannot altogether separate from the personal Byron , but whom we should judge , as we judge other poets , by the best half of his work , in which , as Matthew Arnold , a poet writing of a poet , so finely ...
... poet , whom , it is true , we cannot altogether separate from the personal Byron , but whom we should judge , as we judge other poets , by the best half of his work , in which , as Matthew Arnold , a poet writing of a poet , so finely ...
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... poet then is greater if we confine ourselves to Byron at his best . But Byron's poetry at its best is constantly personal , subjective , and overflowing with Byron the man . So that fully to understand Byron at his best in poetry we are ...
... poet then is greater if we confine ourselves to Byron at his best . But Byron's poetry at its best is constantly personal , subjective , and overflowing with Byron the man . So that fully to understand Byron at his best in poetry we are ...
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... poet was Byron . Byron's experience and his knowledge of life were necessarily but those of one man and essentially ... poets his contemporaries , " is that they never " " lived in high life nor in solitude : there is xii INTRODUCTION.
... poet was Byron . Byron's experience and his knowledge of life were necessarily but those of one man and essentially ... poets his contemporaries , " is that they never " " lived in high life nor in solitude : there is xii INTRODUCTION.
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