Byron and the Poetics of Adversity

ISBN-13: 9781009232951 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 150 str.

Jerome (University of Virginia) McGann

Opis

A landmark study that unearths Byron's profound, enduring critique of the failures of language and the contradictions of his age.

Recenzje

'McGann's style is vivid and animated, exuberant even … [he] makes the reader feel, while immersed, that nothing could be more important than the task in hand … he writes not only to evoke poetic excellences, but also to make a timely intervention … You may not always agree with his diagnosis of what needs to be done, but you never end a piece by McGann without feeling that you've been put through your paces and are better for it.' Seamus Perry, Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

1. Don Juan and the English language; 2. Byron Agonistes, 1809–1816; 3. Manfred: one word for mercy; 4. Byron and the 'Wrong Revolutionary Poetical System'; 5. Byron, Blake, and the adversity of poetics; 6. The stubborn foe: bad verse and the poetry of action.