Byron: His Achievement and SignificanceGrian-Aig Press, 1976 - 120 pages |
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Page 43
... mood of resignation did not last . No mood lasted with Byron . But it shows a break in the dark- ness of his outlook which foreshadows the lighter - hearted later years which were to bring , if not the completely philosophic mind , at ...
... mood of resignation did not last . No mood lasted with Byron . But it shows a break in the dark- ness of his outlook which foreshadows the lighter - hearted later years which were to bring , if not the completely philosophic mind , at ...
Page 86
... mood should be warned beforehand that Don Juan is not to be read as a solemn flight in the rari- fied stratas of sublimity . One has only to read , say , Paradise Lost , or The Prelude , to see how impossible such attempts are for great ...
... mood should be warned beforehand that Don Juan is not to be read as a solemn flight in the rari- fied stratas of sublimity . One has only to read , say , Paradise Lost , or The Prelude , to see how impossible such attempts are for great ...
Page 96
... mood -- the comic , the tragic , the pathetic , the farcical , the satirical . Byron is unique here . By his satires alone he places him- self among the masters of English . In his early verse he is stiffly traditional even , compared ...
... mood -- the comic , the tragic , the pathetic , the farcical , the satirical . Byron is unique here . By his satires alone he places him- self among the masters of English . In his early verse he is stiffly traditional even , compared ...
Contents
Hours of Idleness | 1 |
The Satirist in Embryo | 7 |
After Childe Harold | 17 |
Copyright | |
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