OXFORD WORLD CLASSICS: : SELECTED POETRY PB B FORMAT

Εκδότης: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Συγγραφέας: LORD GEORGE GORDON BYRON-JEROME J. MCGANN
Isbn: 9780192835291
Διαστάσεις: 196Χ129Χ17
Αριθμός σελίδων: 256
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης: 7/1/1998
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Περιγραφη

"Byron was a legend in his own lifetime and the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. The most European of the English writers in an age of revolution, Byron was deeply involved in contemporary events, and a passionate supporter of the struggle for Greek independence. Describing himself as 'born for opposition', his work was largely directed against what he called the 'cant political, cant poetical, and cant moral' of the English and European worlds. He was rocketed to fame by the publication of Childe Harold in 1812, and lionized by society until his departure from England amid a whirlpool of private gossip and newspaper scandal in 1816. His is, in every sense, a poetry of experience, and a Romantic emphasis on the personality of the poet is the hallmark of all his verse. Relishing humour and irony, daring and flamboyant, sardonic yet idealistic, his work encompasses a sweeping range of topics, subjects, and models, embracing the most traditional and the most experimental poetic forms. This selectio