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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... political and literary prejudice cannot be brought against their treatment of Byron , which is characterized over the years by its blend of sympathy and astringency , fairness and rigour , Jeffrey's own contributions being particularly ...
... political and literary prejudice cannot be brought against their treatment of Byron , which is characterized over the years by its blend of sympathy and astringency , fairness and rigour , Jeffrey's own contributions being particularly ...
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... political importance as an organ of Whig opinion . ' As an author , ' he told Hobhouse , ' I am cut to atoms by the ... politics and poetry are different things , and I am no adept in either . I therefore submit in Silence.'4 In later ...
... political importance as an organ of Whig opinion . ' As an author , ' he told Hobhouse , ' I am cut to atoms by the ... politics and poetry are different things , and I am no adept in either . I therefore submit in Silence.'4 In later ...
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... political or religious grounds : indeed , he rather enjoyed being the centre of controversy , as long as his genius was freely acknowledged . As Wordsworth shrewdly observed in April 1816 , ' It avails nothing to attempt to heap up ...
... political or religious grounds : indeed , he rather enjoyed being the centre of controversy , as long as his genius was freely acknowledged . As Wordsworth shrewdly observed in April 1816 , ' It avails nothing to attempt to heap up ...
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... political and religious tendencies of his writings . In the early cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage he had dropped the mask of orthodoxy which had served as a useful satiric device in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers ; and his run ...
... political and religious tendencies of his writings . In the early cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage he had dropped the mask of orthodoxy which had served as a useful satiric device in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers ; and his run ...
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... political satire , and by what was seen as its profligacy , its lubricity , and its cynical deflation of all moral values . As for the poet's political opinions , these had elicited a protest from the Quarterly reviewer in 1812 ; and ...
... political satire , and by what was seen as its profligacy , its lubricity , and its cynical deflation of all moral values . As for the poet's political opinions , these had elicited a protest from the Quarterly reviewer in 1812 ; and ...
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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