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Byron and the Poetics of Adversity (Hardcover)
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Byron and the Poetics of Adversity (Hardcover)
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A long line of traditional, often conservative, criticism and
cultural commentary deplored Byron as a slipshod poet. This pithy
yet aptly poetic book, written by one of the world's foremost
Romantic scholars, argues that assessment is badly mistaken.
Byron's great subject is what he called 'Cant': the habit of
abusing the world through misusing language. Setting up his poetry
as a laboratory to investigate failures of writing, reading, and
thinking, Byron delivered sharp critical judgment on the costs
exacted by a careless approach to his Mother Tongue. Perspicuous
readings of Byron alongside some of his Romantic contemporaries -
Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley - reveal Byron's
startling reconfiguration of poetry as a 'broken mirror' and
shattered lamp. The paradoxical result was to argue that his age's
contradictions, and his own, offered both ethical opportunities and
a promise of poetic - broadly cultural - emancipation. This book
represents a major contribution to ideas about Romanticism.
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