Byron, Volume 1A collection of essays on various works by Lord Byron. A biographical section introduces each volume. |
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... Fire lives the death of air , and air lives the death of fire ; water lives the death of earth , earth that of water ' . This means that the poem has a cyclic structure , more complicated than the Heracleitan formula itself suggests ...
... Fire lives the death of air , and air lives the death of fire ; water lives the death of earth , earth that of water ' . This means that the poem has a cyclic structure , more complicated than the Heracleitan formula itself suggests ...
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... fire ' has died into ' earth ' , ' air ' has died into ' water ' . The indifference of the Giaour to the beauty of his surroundings is the necessary indifference of air and fire ( cf. Hotspur and the Dauphin in Shakespeare ) to the ele ...
... fire ' has died into ' earth ' , ' air ' has died into ' water ' . The indifference of the Giaour to the beauty of his surroundings is the necessary indifference of air and fire ( cf. Hotspur and the Dauphin in Shakespeare ) to the ele ...
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... fire - around this nucleus he constructs ideograms ex- pressive of a wide variety of states of mind . Fire indeed is of the essence of the creative mind itself , as he declares openly at the outset of the canto : I have thought Too long ...
... fire - around this nucleus he constructs ideograms ex- pressive of a wide variety of states of mind . Fire indeed is of the essence of the creative mind itself , as he declares openly at the outset of the canto : I have thought Too long ...
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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