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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... unrebuked , for outrage and delight were fused in the response invited by his poetry , and the balance could easily tip to one extreme or to the other ; but from 1816 onwards such criticism was intensified 8 INTRODUCTION.
... unrebuked , for outrage and delight were fused in the response invited by his poetry , and the balance could easily tip to one extreme or to the other ; but from 1816 onwards such criticism was intensified 8 INTRODUCTION.
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... delighted by the spread of interest in his work . A letter 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 ...
... delighted by the spread of interest in his work . A letter 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 ...
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... delight . There is no story or adventure — and , indeed , no incident of any kind ; the whole poem— to give a very short account of it — consisting of a series of reflections made in travelling through a part of Spain and Portugal , and ...
... delight . There is no story or adventure — and , indeed , no incident of any kind ; the whole poem— to give a very short account of it — consisting of a series of reflections made in travelling through a part of Spain and Portugal , and ...
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... delight , ' and passes on through the great wilderness of the world with a heart shut to all human sympathy — sullenly despising the stir both of its business and its pleasures — but hating and despising himself most of all , for ...
... delight , ' and passes on through the great wilderness of the world with a heart shut to all human sympathy — sullenly despising the stir both of its business and its pleasures — but hating and despising himself most of all , for ...
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... delighted either with the air he has chosen , or the style in which it is executed . The Notes are written in a flippant , lively , tranchant and assuming style — neither very deep nor very witty ; though rather entertaining , and ...
... delighted either with the air he has chosen , or the style in which it is executed . The Notes are written in a flippant , lively , tranchant and assuming style — neither very deep nor very witty ; though rather entertaining , and ...
Contents
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THE TURKISH TALES 181316 | 53 |
ELLIS review of The Corsair and Lara Quarterly | 65 |
Verse commentaries on Byrons poetry 181215 | 75 |
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage Canto III 1816 | 81 |
JEFFREY Edinburgh Review 181617 | 100 |
Manfred 1817 | 116 |
Some minor reviewers on Don Juan | 258 |
Dismissive comments on Byron by KEATS | 265 |
Don Juan unpoetical? 1829 | 280 |
CARLYLE on Byron and Byronism 182443 | 286 |
MACAULAY on Byron 1831 | 295 |
BULWERLYTTON on Byrons popularity 1833 | 317 |
HENRY TAYLOR on Byrons deficiencies as a poet | 325 |
SI THACKERAY on Byrons insincerity 1846 | 342 |
PRESBYTER ANGLICANUS Blackwoods Magazine | 126 |
SCOTT Quarterly Review 1818 | 138 |
JOHN WILSON Edinburgh Review 1818 | 148 |
SHELLEY and PEACOCK on Byronic misanthropy | 156 |
Don Juan 181924 | 166 |
LEIGH HUNT review of Cantos I and | 174 |
JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART John Bulls Letter | 182 |
CROKER On Cantos III and IV 1820 | 192 |
JEFFREY on Don Juan 1822 | 199 |
THE DRAMAS 1821 | 207 |
Some reactions to Cain | 214 |
HUNT review of Cain Examiner 1822 | 222 |
JEFFREY review of Sardanapalus The Two Foscari | 228 |
Quarterly Review 1822 | 236 |
The Vision of Judgment 1822 | 249 |
KINGSLEY on Shelley and Byron 1853 1859 | 350 |
BAGEHOT on the mere fashion for Byron 1864 1879 | 365 |
SWINBURNEs defence of Byron 1866 1875 | 373 |
JOHN MORLEY on Byron and the Revolution 1870 | 384 |
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS on Byron 1880 | 410 |
RUSKIN on Byron 184186 | 421 |
ARNOLD on Byron 185088 | 441 |
W E HENLEY on Byron 1881 1890 | 460 |
SAINTSBURY on Byrons secondrateness 1896 | 477 |
CHESTERTON on Byrons optimism 1902 | 484 |
J F A PYRE on Byron and modern taste 1907 | 491 |
ARTHUR SYMONS on Byron 1909 | 497 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 506 |
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