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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... seems to have been almost insatiable ; and although his dramas did not catch the public taste , his earlier poems retained their popularity , while both Don Juan and Cain • enjoyed a succès de scandale . ( When Don 9 INTRODUCTION.
... seems to have been almost insatiable ; and although his dramas did not catch the public taste , his earlier poems retained their popularity , while both Don Juan and Cain • enjoyed a succès de scandale . ( When Don 9 INTRODUCTION.
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... seem to propound an acceptable Victorian solution to Romantic spiritual predicaments ) . Nor need one comment on the protests registered on Byron's behalf by men like Kingsley ( No. 53 ) or Mazzini ( No. so ) , or the reassessments ...
... seem to propound an acceptable Victorian solution to Romantic spiritual predicaments ) . Nor need one comment on the protests registered on Byron's behalf by men like Kingsley ( No. 53 ) or Mazzini ( No. so ) , or the reassessments ...
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... seem beyond dispute . A generation has grown up with the Boeotian assumption that twentieth - century views alone merit ... seems worth recording that the major issues about Byron's poetry had been discussed , the essential dis ...
... seem beyond dispute . A generation has grown up with the Boeotian assumption that twentieth - century views alone merit ... seems worth recording that the major issues about Byron's poetry had been discussed , the essential dis ...
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... seems to have been less immediate in America than in Britain , and one contemporary suggests that this may have been due to an initial distrust of Byron's rank and social position . But the vogue , once it gained momentum , was as ...
... seems to have been less immediate in America than in Britain , and one contemporary suggests that this may have been due to an initial distrust of Byron's rank and social position . But the vogue , once it gained momentum , was as ...
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... seems to have been one of the principal sources of these , and all the other defects in his poetry , 51 This ... seem to have affected his popularity , and moralists themselves were not always immune to Byron's dangerous appeal . E. P. ...
... seems to have been one of the principal sources of these , and all the other defects in his poetry , 51 This ... seem to have affected his popularity , and moralists themselves were not always immune to Byron's dangerous appeal . E. P. ...
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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