Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Religious Poetry - Literary Criticism, English Poetry - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, English Poetry - 19th Century - Literary Criticism, Religion & Literature
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The past century has produced an abundance of information confirming George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) as a renegade English nobleman and an accomplished poet, says Barton (literature and composition, Regional U. in the Western Pacific), but the conventional view is both incomplete and myopic. He argues that the image of him as propelled through life by purely secular motivations could only have been constructed by neglecting the religious influence in his life and poetry. In addition to his well known strong interest in political and social reform both in England and in Mediterranean Europe, he finds elements in his life and poetry that reveal a peculiar and at times macabre fascination with his spiritual identity. The text is double spaced. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORBook Details
Published
November 1, 2003
Publisher
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2003.
Pages
1968
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780773466340