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Tag: Byron

175. (Lord Byron)

An answer to the question, “Why does Don Juan incite laughter?” will not take the form of verbal criticism, because verbal … More

Byron, Poetry, Romanticism

174. (Lord Byron)

Like many other great works of Romantic literature, Don Juan finds human caring to be a source of life and makes … More

Byron, comedy, Philosophy and Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Romanticism

117. (Lord Byron)

“If there is a critique of the Enlightenment to be made, it is not that the philosophes believed in human nature, … More

Byron, Dante, epic, Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Virgil

72. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

Tennyson loved Byron first; the story, propagated by Tennyson’s laureate self, of the young Alfred sobbing at the great poet’s … More

Byron, Poetry, Tennyson, Victorian Poetry

32. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

A short phrase binds an entire ream of Tennyson criticism: “the art of the penultimate.” That Tennyson’s art looks forward … More

Bildungsroman, Byron, Christopher Ricks, Fiction, Franco Moretti, Novel, Poetry, Tennyson, Victorian Poetry, Wordsworth
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