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Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry (Hardcover)
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Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
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'It is no great matter, supposing that Italy could be liberated,
who or what is sacrificed. It is a grand object - the very poetry
of politics. Only think - a free Italy!!! Why, there has been
nothing like it since the days of Augustus.' So wrote Lord Byron in
his journal, in February 1821, only days before the outbreak of
revolution in Greece, where three years later he would die in the
service of the revolutionary cause. For a poet whose life and work
are interlaced with action of multiple sorts, surprisingly little
attention has been devoted to Byron's engagement with issues of
politics. This volume brings together the work of eminent Byronists
from seven European countries and the USA to re-assess the
evidence. What did Byron mean by the 'poetry of politics'? Was he,
in any sense, a 'political animal'? Can his final, fateful
involvement in Greece be understood as the culmination of earlier,
more deeply rooted quests? The first part of the book examines the
implications of reading and writing as themselves political acts;
the second interrogates the politics inherent or implied in Byron's
poems and plays; the third follows the trajectory of his political
engagement (or non-engagement), from his abortive early career in
the British House of Lords, via the Peninsular War in Spain to his
involvement in revolutionary politics abroad.
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