Selected Poetry
Byron, George Gordon
Byron was a legend in his own lifetime and the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. The most European of the English writers in an age of revolution, Byron was deeply involved in contemporary events, and a passionate supporter of the struggle for Greek independence. Describing himself as `born for opposition`, his work was largely directed against what he called the `cant political, cant poetical, and cant moral` of the English and European worlds. He was rocketed to fame by the publication of "Childe Harold" in 1812, and lionized by society until his departure from England amid a whirlpool of private gossip and newspaper scandal in 1816. His is, in every sense, a poetry of experience, and a Romantic emphasis on the personality...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953878-2
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
