Byron and the forms of thought / Anthony Howe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howe, Tony (Lecturer in English), author.

Series:

Liverpool English texts and studies ; 61.

Liverpool English texts and studies ; 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Byron, George Gordon Byron.

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

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

Poetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 195 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Byron and the Forms of Thought is a major new study of Byron as a poet and thinker. While informed by recent work on Byron's philosophical contexts, the book questions attempts to describe Byron as a philosopher of a particular kind. It approaches Byron, rather, as a writer fascinated by the different ways of thinking philosophy and poetry are taken to represent.After an Introduction that explores Byron's reception as a thinker, the book moves to a new reading of Byron's scepticism, arguing for a close proximity, in Byron's thought, between epistemology and poetics. This is explored through readings of Byron's efforts both as a philosophical poet and writer of critical prose. The conclusions reached form the basis of an extended reading of Don Juan as a critical narrative that investigates connections between visionary and political consciousness. What emerges is a deeply thoughtful poet intrigued and exercised by the possibilities of literary form.

Contents:

Part 1. Philosophy. Essay I . 'I doubt if doubt itself be doubting' : scepticism, system and poetry

Essay II. A 'voice from out the wilderness' : Cain and philosophical poetry

Part 2. Poetics. Essay III. The need for 'all this' : Johnson, Bowles and the forms of prose

Essay IV. 'I wish to do as much by Poesy' : amidst a Byronic poetics

Part 3. Outlines. Essay V. The flower and the gem : narrative form and the traces of Eden

Essay VI. 'Glory's dream unriddled' : politics and the forms of war.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189) and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Other Format:

Print version: Byron and the forms of thought.

ISBN:

9781781380918

1781380910

9781781385555

1781385556

OCLC:

1138060702

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access