A guide to Byron's verse in fifty poems /

This text extends our understanding of Lord Byron's poetry - as opposed to his life and legend - by offering fifty very short discussions of his best poems, be they lyrics, four cantos of poetic travelogue in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, narrative poems set in the Middle East and elsewhere,...

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Main Author: Lansdown, Richard, 1961- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This text extends our understanding of Lord Byron's poetry - as opposed to his life and legend - by offering fifty very short discussions of his best poems, be they lyrics, four cantos of poetic travelogue in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, narrative poems set in the Middle East and elsewhere, dramas (neoclassical, Faustian, or Biblical), satires, love songs, or the seventeen cantos of his comic epic, Don Juan. The coverage is wide, from the very beginning of Byron's career in Nottinghamshire to its very end in Greece, and the approach is accessible, giving readers something to think about rather than telling them what to think, without 'explaining poems away'.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations.
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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