Byron and Bob : Lord Byron's relationship with Robert Southey / by Peter Cochran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cochran, Peter, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Friends and associates.

Byron, George Gordon Byron.

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

Southey, Robert, 1774-1843--Friends and associates.

Southey, Robert.

Southey, Robert, 1774-1843--Criticism and interpretation.

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Poets, English--19th century--Biography.

Poets, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Byron and Bob is the first book ever to be dedicated to the most important literary relationship in Byron's career - that Other the Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, whom he hated, and to whom he "dedicated" his most important poem, Don Juan. Drawing on much unseen manuscript material, Peter Cochran shows that although Byron's antipathy towards Southey was at first a normal literary distaste, it became, the more he ingested his private image of Southey, a projected self-distrust, a dislike of eve...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; SHORT TITLES AND ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-279) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-58532-0

9786612585326

1-4438-1879-8

OCLC:

823386135