Byron / Drummond Bone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bone, Drummond.

Contributor:

British Council.

Series:

Writers and their work

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.

Byron, George Gordon Byron.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron 1788-1824--Criticism and interpretation.

Local Subjects:

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron 1788-1824--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 86 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tavistock : Northcote House, 2000.

Summary:

After Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim of the myth of his own personality. Now he is read and studied both for his complex politics and as a forerunner of many of the ideas and techniques more usually associated with post-modernism. Bone tackles the critical problems both of the populism of much of Byron's early work, and conversely of the sophisticated comedy of Beppo, Don Juan and The Vision of Judgment. He argues that for all its contradictoriness Byron's poetic mind develops organically, and that the scintillating technique of the late works grows out of the profoundly modern world-view, relativistic and secular, which had developed through his early years. Byron's writings are seen as a vital area for post-ideological and new-formalist criticism.

Contents:

1 Aberdeen, Newstead, the Mediterranean 1

2 Childe Harold I and II; the Turkish Tales 7

3 London: Years of Fame 16

4 Explorations: the Lyrics and Short Poems 21

5 First Year of Exile: Switzerland 35

6 Childe Harold III; Manfred 38

7 Exile in Italy: Rebuilding a Life 48

8 Childe Harold IV; Beppo; Don Juan; The Vision of Judgment 52

9 Political Action: Italy and Greece 73

10 The Late Dramas 77.

Notes:

Published in association with The British Council.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0746307756

OCLC:

44740324