Book contents
- Reviews
- Byron and the Poetics of Adversity
- Byron and the Poetics of Adversity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Don Juan and the English Language
- 2 Byron Agonistes, 1809–1816
- 3 Manfred
- 4 Byron and the “Wrong Revolutionary Poetical System”
- 5 Byron, Blake, and the Adversity of Poetics
- 6 The Stubborn Foe
- Notes
- Index
1 - Don Juan and the English Language
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 November 2022
- Reviews
- Byron and the Poetics of Adversity
- Byron and the Poetics of Adversity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Don Juan and the English Language
- 2 Byron Agonistes, 1809–1816
- 3 Manfred
- 4 Byron and the “Wrong Revolutionary Poetical System”
- 5 Byron, Blake, and the Adversity of Poetics
- 6 The Stubborn Foe
- Notes
- Index
Summary
The “most readable poem in the language” is also one of the most gratulant acts of homage to Byron’s Mother Tongue. Framed in a critical relation to Wordsworth and Coleridge and their influential ideas about language and poetry, Don Juan makes its case by poetic example, not prose precept. The poem’s kaleidoscopic show-and-tell performance of unrestrained poetic expression unfolds to a broad demonstration of Freedom and free expression as primary social, moral, and poetic values.
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- Byron and the Poetics of Adversity , pp. 9 - 37Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022