Byron and the forms of thought

Byron and the Forms of Thought is a major new study of Byron as a poet and thinker. While informed by recent work on Byron's philosophical contexts, the book questions attempts to describe Byron as a philosopher of a particular kind. It approaches Byron, rather, as a writer fascinated by the di...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Howe, Tony (Lecturer in English), author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press 2013.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Liverpool English texts and studies ; 61.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419793306719
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Philosophy. Essay I . 'I doubt if doubt itself be doubting' : scepticism, system and poetry
  • Essay II. A 'voice from out the wilderness' : Cain and philosophical poetry
  • Part 2. Poetics. Essay III. The need for 'all this' : Johnson, Bowles and the forms of prose
  • Essay IV. 'I wish to do as much by Poesy' : amidst a Byronic poetics
  • Part 3. Outlines. Essay V. The flower and the gem : narrative form and the traces of Eden
  • Essay VI. 'Glory's dream unriddled' : politics and the forms of war.