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- Byron in Context
- Byron in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Political, Social and Intellectual Transformations
- Part III Literary Cultures
- Chapter 17 Classicism and Neoclassicism
- Chapter 18 Epic (and Historiography)
- Chapter 19 Romance
- Chapter 20 Byron’s Lyric Practice
- Chapter 21 Satire
- Chapter 22 The Satanic School
- Chapter 23 The Lake Poets
- Chapter 24 Byron’s Accidental Muse
- Chapter 25 “Benign Ceruleans of the Second Sex!”
- Chapter 26 The Pisan Circle and the Cockney School
- Chapter 27 Drama and Theater
- Chapter 28 Autobiography
- Chapter 29 “Literatoor” and Literary Theory
- Chapter 30 Periodical Culture, the Literary Review and the Mass Media
- Part IV Reception and Afterlives
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 26 - The Pisan Circle and the Cockney School
from Part III - Literary Cultures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 October 2019
- Byron in Context
- Byron in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Political, Social and Intellectual Transformations
- Part III Literary Cultures
- Chapter 17 Classicism and Neoclassicism
- Chapter 18 Epic (and Historiography)
- Chapter 19 Romance
- Chapter 20 Byron’s Lyric Practice
- Chapter 21 Satire
- Chapter 22 The Satanic School
- Chapter 23 The Lake Poets
- Chapter 24 Byron’s Accidental Muse
- Chapter 25 “Benign Ceruleans of the Second Sex!”
- Chapter 26 The Pisan Circle and the Cockney School
- Chapter 27 Drama and Theater
- Chapter 28 Autobiography
- Chapter 29 “Literatoor” and Literary Theory
- Chapter 30 Periodical Culture, the Literary Review and the Mass Media
- Part IV Reception and Afterlives
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
In its August and September 1822 issues, the Imperial Magazine devoted a long, scathing memoir to Byron’s life and works under the column titled “Memoirs of the Living Poets of Great Britain.” The anonymous “W” concluded by drawing a telling comparison between the poet and Voltaire:
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