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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... noble author is peculiarly forward in pleading minority . We have it in the title - page , and on the very back of the volume ; it follows his name like a favourite part of his style . Much stress is laid upon it in the preface , and ...
... noble author is peculiarly forward in pleading minority . We have it in the title - page , and on the very back of the volume ; it follows his name like a favourite part of his style . Much stress is laid upon it in the preface , and ...
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... noble minor's volume . Lord Byron should also have a care of attempting what the greatest poets have done before him , for comparisons ( as he must have had occasion to see at his writing - master's ) are odious , -Gray's ' Ode on Eton ...
... noble minor's volume . Lord Byron should also have a care of attempting what the greatest poets have done before him , for comparisons ( as he must have had occasion to see at his writing - master's ) are odious , -Gray's ' Ode on Eton ...
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... noble line . ' There is a good deal also about his maternal ancestors , in a poem on Lachin - y - gair , a mountain where he spent part of his youth , and might have learnt that pibroch is not a bagpipe , any more than duet means a ...
... noble line . ' There is a good deal also about his maternal ancestors , in a poem on Lachin - y - gair , a mountain where he spent part of his youth , and might have learnt that pibroch is not a bagpipe , any more than duet means a ...
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... noble minor , it seems we must take them as we find them , and be content ; for they are the last we shall ever have from him . He is at best , he says , but an intruder into the groves of Parnassus ; he never lived in a garret , like ...
... noble minor , it seems we must take them as we find them , and be content ; for they are the last we shall ever have from him . He is at best , he says , but an intruder into the groves of Parnassus ; he never lived in a garret , like ...
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... noble lord's other powers to claim sympathy gravely for the ennui arising from his being tired of his wassailers and his paramours . There is a monstrous deal of conceit in it too for it is informing the inferior part of the world that ...
... noble lord's other powers to claim sympathy gravely for the ennui arising from his being tired of his wassailers and his paramours . There is a monstrous deal of conceit in it too for it is informing the inferior part of the world that ...
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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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