Byron, Volume 1A collection of essays on various works by Lord Byron. A biographical section introduces each volume. |
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... Giaour : ' no breath of air ' breaks the wave " That rolls below the Athenian's grave ' . The great artefacts of Venice mock her Austrian oppressors and in this sense are invulnerable , like the ghost of Hamlet's father , ' like the air ...
... Giaour : ' no breath of air ' breaks the wave " That rolls below the Athenian's grave ' . The great artefacts of Venice mock her Austrian oppressors and in this sense are invulnerable , like the ghost of Hamlet's father , ' like the air ...
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... Giaour , where the nub of the plot , the drowning of the Turkish girl , derives from a real life episode in which Byron was directly involved . ( He did in fact save the girl from the fate she suffers in the poem : " To describe the ...
... Giaour , where the nub of the plot , the drowning of the Turkish girl , derives from a real life episode in which Byron was directly involved . ( He did in fact save the girl from the fate she suffers in the poem : " To describe the ...
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... Giaour , but with a difference . The poem was begun and completed in the last fortnight of December 1813 , an ... Giaour was a Tale in which the hero had failed to rescue the heroine ; in The Bride the heroine causes the death of the ...
... Giaour , but with a difference . The poem was begun and completed in the last fortnight of December 1813 , an ... Giaour was a Tale in which the hero had failed to rescue the heroine ; in The Bride the heroine causes the death of the ...
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action antithetical Athens Bernard Blackstone Bibliography Blake Bonamy Dobrée Bride of Abydos Byron's imagination Byron's verse Canto II Childe Harold column correlatives Corsair Dante dimension Don Juan drama earth edition Edmund Blunden elements essay express Byron's extrovert fame feeling feminine fiery fire flame fuses G. S. Fraser Giaour Greece Greek Guiccioli Gulnare Horace Hours of Idleness human ideograms Italy J. I. M. Stewart Kenneth Kubla Khan landscape Lara later Laurence Brander LETTERS Little Gidding lives the death London lonely breast LONGMAN GROUP LTD LORD BYRON M. C. Bradbrook Mazeppa meditative Medora Missolonghi mountains narrative o'er Oliver Warner Oriental Parisina passage passion Philhellenes phrase Pilgrimage poet poetry present Prisoner of Chillon privately printed Quennell Ravenna reflection resonance romantic Satire scene Scott-Kilvert sense Shelley Shelley's Siege of Corinth stanzas T. S. Eliot Teresa theme THOMAS Turkish Venice vols wanderer wave wisdom Wordsworth