Selections from Byron: Childe Harold, Canto IV, The Prisoner of Chillon, Mazeppa, and Other PoemsGinn, 1911 - 185 pages |
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... genius by presenting for study and for reading those of his poems which should make the most immediate appeal . For such a purpose much of Byron's poetry is admirably fitted , since , as a whole , it is not abstruse in its subject ...
... genius by presenting for study and for reading those of his poems which should make the most immediate appeal . For such a purpose much of Byron's poetry is admirably fitted , since , as a whole , it is not abstruse in its subject ...
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... genius , but its main importance lies in the fact that Idleness ' ' it prompted the famous criticism written by Lord Brougham , and printed in The Edinburgh Review for January , 1808. The Edinburgh's onslaught was terrific . The inoffen ...
... genius , but its main importance lies in the fact that Idleness ' ' it prompted the famous criticism written by Lord Brougham , and printed in The Edinburgh Review for January , 1808. The Edinburgh's onslaught was terrific . The inoffen ...
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... genius now lifted him to the pinnacle of social favor . He posed as a mere liter- ary dilettante , a lord who amused himself by occasional ventures into literature , and aimed to discriminate sharply between professional writers , whom ...
... genius now lifted him to the pinnacle of social favor . He posed as a mere liter- ary dilettante , a lord who amused himself by occasional ventures into literature , and aimed to discriminate sharply between professional writers , whom ...
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... genius , was his generosity of spirit as well as of purse , and his utter contempt of all the affectations of ... geniuses of my time , and of half a century Walter Scott • before me . We have many men of high poetic xxiv SELECTIONS FROM ...
... genius , was his generosity of spirit as well as of purse , and his utter contempt of all the affectations of ... geniuses of my time , and of half a century Walter Scott • before me . We have many men of high poetic xxiv SELECTIONS FROM ...
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... the more elaborate Prisoner of Chillon . Byron's attitude towards Shelley's poetry was not always favorable , — indeed , it is doubtful if he fully appreciated the great genius of his friend ; but his xxvi SELECTIONS FROM BYRON.
... the more elaborate Prisoner of Chillon . Byron's attitude towards Shelley's poetry was not always favorable , — indeed , it is doubtful if he fully appreciated the great genius of his friend ; but his xxvi SELECTIONS FROM BYRON.
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