Author: Angus Calder Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780389208730 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 202
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Contents: Preface: Norman Buchan, M. P.; Introduction: Angus Calder; Byron the Radical: David Craig; Byron: Radical, Scotish Aristocrat: Andrew Noble; Byron and Catholicism: William Donnelly; Byron and Scott: P. H. Scott; The Provost and His Lord: John Galt and Lord Byron: Margery McCulloch; Lord Byron and Lord Elgin: Douglas Dunn; Byron: An Edinburgh Re-Review: John Curt; Byron, Scott and Scottish Nostalgia: J. Drummond Bone; "The Island: " Scotland, Greece, and Romantic Savagery: Angus Calder; "Byron Landing From a Boat" by George Sanders: Michael Rees; On Singing "Dark Lochnager: " Sheena Blackhall; Afterword: J. Drummond Bone^R
Author: Geoff Payne Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9783039113415 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 282
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What does it mean to say that poetry is dark? How does the presence of darkness give meaning to literary works? Such questions sit at the centre of this study of Lord Byron, a man who has been characterised as intrinsically dark by generations of scholars. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of Byron's darkness, producing new and innovative readings of his poetry by exploring how darkness (both literal and figurative) helps to structure his work's ideological topography and facilitates the exchange of ideas between its different ideological systems. Canvassing a variety of issues relevant to a number of different manifestations of darkness, the study explores such diverse topics as the relationship between sublime aesthetics and the gendering of desire, the connection between darkness and Byron's Scottish nationalism and the influence of blackness on his engagement with the Orient. With such a broad focus in mind, it also engages with texts that represent Byron's oeuvre in its broadest sense, engaging not only with canonical texts such as Manfred and Don Juan, but also selections from Byron's juvenilia, the Oriental Tales and his letters and journals, as well as surveying the critical reviews that helped to influence the colour of his work and its later reception.
Author: Fiona MacCarthy Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1444799878 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 864
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Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive. She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the Mediterranean and the East, throwing light on his relationships with adolescent boys - a hidden subject in earlier biographies. While paying due attention to the compelling tragicomedy of Byron's marriage, his incestuous love for his half-sister Augusta and the clamorous attention of his female fans, she gives a new importance to his close male friendships, in particular that with his publisher John Murray. She tells the full story of their famous disagreement, ending as a rift between them as Byron's poetry became more recklessly controversial. Byron was a celebrity in his own lifetime, becoming a 'superstar' in 1812, after the publication of Childe Harold. The Byron legend grew to unprecedented proportions after his death in the Greek War of Independence at the age of thirty-six. The problem for a biographer is sifting the truth from the sentimental, the self-serving and the spurious. Fiona MacCarthy has overcome this to produce an immaculately researched biography, which is also her refreshing personal view.
Author: Alan McCredie Publisher: ISBN: 9781913025489 Category : Photography, Artistic Languages : en Pages :
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braw, adj. fine or fine-looking, excellent. This is a celebration of all that is braw, from the warmth of a Scottish pub to the beauty of the Highland hills, from sunbathing on a dual carriageway to weathering the Beast from the East. Dive into braw Scotland.
Author: Newstead Abbey Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9781373157218 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 86
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Author: Roderick Beaton Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107355478 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 357
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Roderick Beaton re-examines Lord Byron's life and writing through the long trajectory of his relationship with Greece. Beginning with the poet's youthful travels in 1809–1811, Beaton traces his years of fame in London and self-imposed exile in Italy, that culminated in the decision to devote himself to the cause of Greek independence. Then comes Byron's dramatic self-transformation, while in Cephalonia, from Romantic rebel to 'new statesman', subordinating himself for the first time to a defined, political cause, in order to begin laying the foundations, during his 'hundred days' at Missolonghi, for a new kind of polity in Europe – that of the nation-state as we know it today. Byron's War draws extensively on Greek historical sources and other unpublished documents to tell an individual story that also offers a new understanding of the significance that Greece had for Byron, and of Byron's contribution to the origin of the present-day Greek state.
Author: Edna O'Brien Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393071278 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 241
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"How long it’s taken for these two mad, bad and dangerous writers to get together!" —Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle Acclaimed biographer of James Joyce, Edna O’Brien has written a "jaunty" (The New Yorker) biography that suits her fiery and charismatic subject. She follows Byron from the dissipations of Regency London to the wilds of Albania and the Socratic pleasures of Greece and Turkey, culminating in his meteoric rise to fame at the age of twenty-four. With "a novelist’s understanding of tempo and characterization" (Miami Herald), O’Brien captures the spirit of the man and creates an indelible portrait that explodes the Romantic myth. Byron, as brilliantly rendered by O’Brien, is the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, and defiantly immortal.
Author: David Duff Publisher: Associated University Presse ISBN: 9780838756188 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 302
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The book offers an exciting new map of the cultural geography of the Romantic era, and establishes a dynamic methodology for future comparative work."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Peter Cochran Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443830259 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 390
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Byron’s Religions is the most comprehensive study yet of the poet’s deep, diverse and eclectic attitude to religion. The articles, by several well-known and distinguished scholars, cover many of his poems and plays, taking in Anglicanism, Catholicism, Blasphemy, Calvinism, Gnosticism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism. The tentative conclusion is that Byron was never the atheist which the cliché has him to be, but a man whose profound need for a faith clashed always with an equally profound scepticism.
Author: Angus Calder
Author: Geoff Payne
Author: Fiona MacCarthy
Author: Alan McCredie
Author: Newstead Abbey
Author: Roderick Beaton
Author: Edna O'Brien
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Author: David Duff
Author: Peter Cochran