Books : Lord Byron (Great Poets)
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by: George G. Lord Byron
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.7
EAN: 9780517118320
ISBN: 0517118327
Label: Gramercy
Manufacturer: Gramercy
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: September 25, 1994
Publisher: Gramercy
Release Date: September 25, 1994
Sales Rank: 3819704
Studio: Gramercy
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A handsomely bound anthology that features the best of Lord Byron's acclaimed works includes excerpts from such masterworks as Childe Harold and Don Juan.
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Rating:  - Byron: Overrated Romantic
Byron's poems don't seem to seek to make any statements. Unlike his Romantic contemporaries Keats, Coleride, and Wordsworth, (even Shelley, to some extent) Byron puts forth no idealogy as to what poetry should be. Instead, he relies on certain aspects of that Romantic idealogy, such as frequent parallels between the state of man and the state of nature... however, with few excceptions, this fails to create unique insights, comments, or even descriptions in his writings. What results is florid, ... Read More
Rating:  - BYRON AT HIS BEST . . .
A legend in his own lifetime, Lord Byron stamped contemporary Western culture with the mark of his dark imagination, and his poetry has lost none of its iconoclastic power today. Without a doubt, this is the finest single-volume edition of Byron currently available. By omitting the rambling satirical romp "Don Juan" (widely available separately), editors Wolfson and Manning leave themselves enough space to provide a truly representative selection of Byron's greatest works. Jerome McGann's "Oxford ... Read More
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