Byron among the English poets : literary tradition and poetic legacy / edited by Clare Bucknell, Matthew Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bucknell, Clare, 1989- editor.

Ward, Matthew, Ph. D., editor.

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--Influence.

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

English poetry--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 361 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

For Byron, poetic achievement was always relative. Writing meant dwelling in an echo chamber of other voices that enriched and contextualised what he had to say. He believed that literary traditions mattered and regarded poetic form as something embedded in historical moments and places. His poetry, as this volume demonstrates, engaged richly and experimentally with English influences and in turn licenced experimentation in multiple strands of post-Romantic English verse. In Byron Among the English Poets he is seen as a poet's poet, a writer whose verse has served as both echo of and prompt for a host of other voices. Here, leading international scholars consider both the contours of individual literary relationships and broader questions regarding the workings of intertextuality, exploring the many ways Byron might be thought to be 'among' the poets: alluding and alluded to; collaborative; competitive; parodied; worked and reworked in imitations, critiques, tributes, travesties and biographies.

Contents:

Part I. Inheritances

Byron and Shakespeare / Bernard Beatty

Not for Envy: Paradise Lost and the Inward Turn in Byron's Cain / Jonathon Shears

Byron and Rochester / Tom Lockwood

Byron's 'Popifying': Twice-Told Tales / Fred Parker

'Liquid Lines' and Della Cruscans: Byron Among the Amatory Poets / Clara Tuite

Byron and Satire Post-1760 / Clare Bucknell

Byron's English Verse Inheritance / Anna Camilleri

Part II: Contemporaries

'I ne'er mistake you for a personal foe': Byron and Wordsworth / Madeleine Callaghan

The Year of Publishing Dangerously: Barbauld and Byron in 1812 / Susan J. Wolfson

Strange Designs: Byron, Shelley, and Ottava Rima / Ross Wilson

Byron, Keats, and the Time of Romanticism / Jonathan Sachs

Broken, Wild, Untold Tales: Byron's Orientalist Poetry and Romantic-Period Narrative Verse / Diego Saglia

'Lord Byron, poh! the man wot writes the werses?': Clare, Byron and Class / Simon Kövesi

Part III. Afterlives

In-Between Byrons: Byronic Legacies in Women's Poetry of the Late Romantic to Mid- Romantic to Mid-Victorian Era / Sarah Wootton

Byron and Browning: Something and Nothing / Jane Stabler

Arnold's Ambivalence and Byron's Force and Fire / Matthew Ward

A.C. Swinburne and Byron's Bad Ear / Richard Cronin

What Auden made of Byron / Seamus Perry

Byron Among Our Contemporaries / Gregory Dowling.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Jul 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-90534-X

1-108-90632-X

1-108-90379-7

OCLC:

1257314841