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3 - Manfred

One Word for Mercy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2022

Jerome McGann
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University of Virginia
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Perhaps no work of Byron’s is more relentlessly challenging to a reader’s understanding than Manfred. The poem’s most notorious biographical resonance – the “real-world” identity of Astarte – indexes its striking array of provocative or enigmatic passages that force readers to a troubled sympathy with Manfred’s tormented mind and world. At the same time, the “medley style” of the work, mixing the poetics of dark Romanticism with unexpected satiric and farcical turns, initiated Byron’s breakthrough into poetic practices of unusual, even shocking, technical range and expressive virtuosity.

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Print publication year: 2022

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  • Manfred
  • Jerome McGann, University of Virginia
  • Book: Byron and the Poetics of Adversity
  • Online publication: 27 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009232968.004
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  • Manfred
  • Jerome McGann, University of Virginia
  • Book: Byron and the Poetics of Adversity
  • Online publication: 27 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009232968.004
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  • Manfred
  • Jerome McGann, University of Virginia
  • Book: Byron and the Poetics of Adversity
  • Online publication: 27 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009232968.004
Available formats
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