Byron, Volume 1A collection of essays on various works by Lord Byron. A biographical section introduces each volume. |
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... seen , Watching at eve upon the giant height ... ( xxvii ) This is a figure muted in the later poems ( Lara , The Corsair , Manfred ) but potent , one feels , within Byron's imagination : one can imagine him , as one cannot imagine any ...
... seen , Watching at eve upon the giant height ... ( xxvii ) This is a figure muted in the later poems ( Lara , The Corsair , Manfred ) but potent , one feels , within Byron's imagination : one can imagine him , as one cannot imagine any ...
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... seen in Hassan's hall ; The lonely Spider's thin gray pall Waves slowly widening o'er the wall ; The Bat builds in his Haram bower And in the fortress of his power The Owl usurps the beacon - tower . A turban carved in coarsest stone ...
... seen in Hassan's hall ; The lonely Spider's thin gray pall Waves slowly widening o'er the wall ; The Bat builds in his Haram bower And in the fortress of his power The Owl usurps the beacon - tower . A turban carved in coarsest stone ...
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... seen the mice by moonlight play , And why should I feel less than they ? ( 381-4 ) but to gauge the remoteness of all this from the multi- dimensioned world of the Oriental Tales we have only to remember The steed is vanish'd from the ...
... seen the mice by moonlight play , And why should I feel less than they ? ( 381-4 ) but to gauge the remoteness of all this from the multi- dimensioned world of the Oriental Tales we have only to remember The steed is vanish'd from 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