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Reading Byron - Poems - Life - Politics (Hardcover)
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Reading Byron - Poems - Life - Politics (Hardcover)
Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 92
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Perhaps no great poet, in any language, has suffered more than
Byron from being merely read about rather than actually read. As
Bernard Beatty remarks in his introduction to this important
collection of essays, the popular conception of 'Byron' still often
approximates to 'Rupert Everett with a limp'. Reading Byron is the
product and summation of nearly sixty years devoted to studying and
teaching his poetry. It argues that, far from being 'mad, bad and
dangerous to know', Byron is serious, ethically orientated and
rewarding to read. The book is in three parts: Poems - Life -
Politics. Five new essays have been written especially for the
first and largest section, which provides fresh perspectives on
Byron's major works. The volume continues with three of Beatty's
lively lectures on unappreciated aspects of Byron the man, and
three pithy essays on Byron as a complex, if not systematic,
political thinker. While Beatty does not question the pre-eminent
status of the 'bright' Don Juan, devoting a chapter to an
unconventional reading of its final cantos, he argues powerfully
that nineteenth-century readers, who responded on an unprecedented
scale to the forceful poetic structures of the 'dark' Byron in
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, The Tales, Manfred, and Cain, were
right to do so. Introduced by Jerome McGann (editor of the great
Clarendon edition of the poet's works) and concluded in dialogue
with Gavin Hopps (co-editor of the forthcoming Longman edition),
Reading Byron is itself essential reading for any student or lover
of Romantic poetry.
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