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.
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Acknowledgements; Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction Clare Bucknell and Matthew Ward; Part I. Inheritances: 1. Byron and Shakespeare Bernard Beatty; 2. Not for Envy: Paradise Lost and the Inward Turn in Byron's Cain Jonathon Shears; 3. Byron and Rochester Tom Lockwood; 4. Byron's 'Popifying': Twice-Told Tales Fred Parker; 5. 'Liquid Lines' and Della Cruscans: Byron among the Amatory Poets Clara Tuite; 6. Byron and Satire Post–1760 Clare Bucknell; 7. Byron's English Verse Inheritance Anna Camilleri; Part II. Contemporaries: 8. 'I ne'er mistake you for a personal foe': Byron and Wordsworth Madeleine Callaghan; 9. The Year of Publishing Dangerously: Barbauld and Byron in 1812 Susan J. Wolfson; 10. Strange Designs: Byron, Shelley, and Ottava Rima Ross Wilson; 11. Byron, Keats, and the Time of Romanticism Jonathan Sachs; 12. Broken, Wild, Untold Tales: Byron's Orientalist Poetry and Romantic-Period Narrative Verse Diego Saglia; 13. 'Lord Byron, poh! The man wot writes the werses?': Clare, Byron and Class Simon Kövesi; Part III. Afterlives: 14. In-Between Byrons: Byronic Legacies in Women's Poetry of the Late Romantic to Mid-Victorian Era Sarah Wootton; 15. Byron and Browning: Something and Nothing Jane Stabler; 16. Arnold's Ambivalence and Byron's Force and Fire Matthew Ward; 17. A.C. Swinburne and Byron's Bad Ear Richard Cronin; 18. What Auden made of Byron Seamus Perry; 19. Byronic Inflections in British Poetry since 1945 Gregory Leadbetter; 20. Byron among our Contemporaries Gregory Dowling; Index.
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'This is an ambitious book … contributors study both the voices that Byron invokes and the later voices that invoke him, … Bucknell and Ward deserve praise for producing such a wide-ranging and thought-provoking volume.' Emily A. Bernhard-Jackson, Review19
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Comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars on Byron's place in the English poetic tradition, his influences and his afterlife.

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ISBN
9781108842655
Publisert
2021-07-29
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Cambridge University Press
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669 gr
Høyde
225 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
380

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Matthew Ward is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. He has published a range of academic articles in Romanticism, SEL, Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, Essays in Criticism, Cambridge Quarterly, and Keats-Shelley Review, on Romantic poetry and Romanticism, and the history of emotions and affect, as well as contributing to the Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron. He is a member of the British Association for Romantic Studies. Clare Bucknell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She has published a number of academic articles and contributes regularly to the London Review of Books and Apollo. She is a deputy editor of Critical Quarterly and a member of the Royal Society of Literature.