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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... writer , enabling the student to follow the formation of critical attitudes to the writer's work and its place within a literary tradition . The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to ...
... writer , enabling the student to follow the formation of critical attitudes to the writer's work and its place within a literary tradition . The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to ...
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... any information storage or retrieval system , without permission in writing from the publishers . British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ISBN 0-415-13445-5 TO MY MOTHER General Editor's Preface The reception given to.
... any information storage or retrieval system , without permission in writing from the publishers . British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ISBN 0-415-13445-5 TO MY MOTHER General Editor's Preface The reception given to.
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... writer ; at the same time , through private comments in letters , journals or marginalia , we gain an insight upon the tastes and literary thought of individual readers of the period . Evidence of this kind helps us to understand the ...
... writer ; at the same time , through private comments in letters , journals or marginalia , we gain an insight upon the tastes and literary thought of individual readers of the period . Evidence of this kind helps us to understand the ...
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... writer is ' represent- ative ' must always be a matter for debate . A literary sociologist might well complain that this collection documents the views of exceptional individuals or of social , educational and literary elites rather ...
... writer is ' represent- ative ' must always be a matter for debate . A literary sociologist might well complain that this collection documents the views of exceptional individuals or of social , educational and literary elites rather ...
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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 ...
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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