Byron: His Achievement and SignificanceGrian-Aig Press, 1976 - 120 pages |
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Page 12
... mind the fact that Byron was only twenty - two when he wrote these cantos , which are in fact his first attempt at a long serious poem . On an average computation they are certainly no worse than those of Keats's The Eve of St. Agnes in ...
... mind the fact that Byron was only twenty - two when he wrote these cantos , which are in fact his first attempt at a long serious poem . On an average computation they are certainly no worse than those of Keats's The Eve of St. Agnes in ...
Page 18
... mind , - The waste of feelings unemploy'd .... The Mind that broods o'er guilty woes , Is like the Scorpion girt by fire , In circle narrowing as it glows , The flames around their captive close , Till inly scorch'd by thousand throes ...
... mind , - The waste of feelings unemploy'd .... The Mind that broods o'er guilty woes , Is like the Scorpion girt by fire , In circle narrowing as it glows , The flames around their captive close , Till inly scorch'd by thousand throes ...
Page 19
... mind of the guilt of his incestuous passion for Augusta . Their second- rateness and unsoundness are not so much technical as emotional : for as even T. S. Eliot , who was blind and deaf as regards Byron , had to admit , The Giaour is a ...
... mind of the guilt of his incestuous passion for Augusta . Their second- rateness and unsoundness are not so much technical as emotional : for as even T. S. Eliot , who was blind and deaf as regards Byron , had to admit , The Giaour is a ...
Contents
Hours of Idleness | 1 |
The Satirist in Embryo | 7 |
After Childe Harold | 17 |
Copyright | |
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