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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... writing , however , brings diminishing returns of interest and amusement , and it is a relief to pass from the fairly predict- able judgments of these lesser reviews and magazines - and indeed from the often irresponsible though lively ...
... writing , however , brings diminishing returns of interest and amusement , and it is a relief to pass from the fairly predict- able judgments of these lesser reviews and magazines - and indeed from the often irresponsible though lively ...
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... writing .... Your envious little knot of parson - poets may say what they please : time will show that I am not in this instance mistaken . ' 20 In these later years he developed a distaste not merely for the comments of the ' cursed ...
... writing .... Your envious little knot of parson - poets may say what they please : time will show that I am not in this instance mistaken . ' 20 In these later years he developed a distaste not merely for the comments of the ' cursed ...
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... written in May 1821 shows his gratification at hearing from Moore that " " the French had caught the contagion of Byronism to the highest pitch " and . . . that nothing was ever like their “ entusymusy ” on the subject , even through ...
... written in May 1821 shows his gratification at hearing from Moore that " " the French had caught the contagion of Byronism to the highest pitch " and . . . that nothing was ever like their “ entusymusy ” on the subject , even through ...
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... written in October 1820 and intended as a Dedication for Marino Faliero : I perceive [ he wrote ironically ] that in Germany , as well as in Italy , there is a great struggle about what they call ' Classical ' and ' Romantic ' , - terms ...
... written in October 1820 and intended as a Dedication for Marino Faliero : I perceive [ he wrote ironically ] that in Germany , as well as in Italy , there is a great struggle about what they call ' Classical ' and ' Romantic ' , - terms ...
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... written . Now , the law upon the point of minority , we hold to be perfectly [ An allusion to Horace's Art of Poetry , 11. 372-3 : ' mediocribus esse poetis / non homines , non di , non concessere columnae . ' ( Loeb trans .: ' that ...
... written . Now , the law upon the point of minority , we hold to be perfectly [ An allusion to Horace's Art of Poetry , 11. 372-3 : ' mediocribus esse poetis / non homines , non di , non concessere columnae . ' ( Loeb trans .: ' 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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