Lord Byron: The Critical HeritageAndrew Rutherford The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. |
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... never a Shelleyan nightingale , sitting in darkness and singing to cheer his own solitude with sweet sounds : he was always conscious of an audience , whether the inner circle at Albemarle Street or society at large , and his awareness ...
... never a Shelleyan nightingale , sitting in darkness and singing to cheer his own solitude with sweet sounds : he was always conscious of an audience , whether the inner circle at Albemarle Street or society at large , and his awareness ...
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... never to favour him with any periodical publications , ' excepting the Edinburgh , Quarterly , and an occasional Blackwood , or now and then a Monthly Review ; for the rest I do not feel curiosity enough to look beyond their covers ...
... never to favour him with any periodical publications , ' excepting the Edinburgh , Quarterly , and an occasional Blackwood , or now and then a Monthly Review ; for the rest I do not feel curiosity enough to look beyond their covers ...
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... Never since I have been a publisher , ' Murray warned him in October 1822 , ' did I ever observe such a universal outcry as this work has occasioned and it is deemed to be no less dull than wickedly intended . . . . My company used to ...
... Never since I have been a publisher , ' Murray warned him in October 1822 , ' did I ever observe such a universal outcry as this work has occasioned and it is deemed to be no less dull than wickedly intended . . . . My company used to ...
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... never existed before , and probably would never come again ' , 38 he was expressing what many felt in Byron's lifetime . ' He stands alone in our poetical biography , ' Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges wrote soon after Byron's death in 1824 ...
... never existed before , and probably would never come again ' , 38 he was expressing what many felt in Byron's lifetime . ' He stands alone in our poetical biography , ' Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges wrote soon after Byron's death in 1824 ...
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... never did he desert the cause of the peoples ; never was he false to human sympathies . A witness of the progress of the Restoration , and the triumph of the principles of the Holy Alliance , he never swerved from his courageous ...
... never did he desert the cause of the peoples ; never was he false to human sympathies . A witness of the progress of the Restoration , and the triumph of the principles of the Holy Alliance , he never swerved from his courageous ...
Contents
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The Giaour June 1813 The Bride of Abydos December 1813 The Corsair February 1814 Lara August 1814 The Siege of Corinth and Parisina Febru... | 53 |
November 1816 | 81 |
June 1817 | 111 |
February 1818 | 121 |
April 1818 | 131 |
181924 | 159 |
December 1821 | 207 |
October 1822 | 249 |
Don Juan 181924 | 253 |
Bibliography | 506 |
Select Index | 507 |
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