Byron : a poet before his public
This book is a major reappraisal of Byron's poetry, which despite his enormous influence, the poetry is often of inferior quality and so inconsistent in its attitudes that Byron's poetic seriousness is inevitably called into question. Dr Martin considers the nature of Byron's relationship with his public and its effect on his poetry.
Print Book, English, 1982
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982
x, 253 p. : il. ; 22 cm
9780521241861, 9780521287661, 0521241863, 0521287669
911308551
List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; A note on the text; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Experiment in Childe Harold I & II; 2. The discovery of an audience: the Turkish tales; 3. Shelley and the new school of poetry: Childe Harold III and The Prisoner of Chillon; 4. Tourist rhetoric: Childe Harold IV; 5. Modernizing the Gothic drama: Manfred; 6. Heroic tableaux: the three historical tragedies; 7. Cain, the reviewers, and Byron's new form of old-fashioned mischief; 8. Don Juan; Notes; Bibliography; Index.