The first full-length study of Byron's masterpiece in over thirty years, this book boldly argues that Don Juan should be recognised as the exemplary epic poem of the nineteenth century. Insightful and convincing, it promises to alter perspectives and invite fresh thinking from both scholars and students of Romanticism.
The first full-length study of Byron's masterpiece in over thirty years, this book boldly argues that Don Juan should be recognised as the exemplary epic poem of the nineteenth century. Insightful and convincing, it promises to alter perspectives and invite fresh thinking from both scholars and students of Romanticism.
Richard Cronin taught for more than forty years at the University of Glasgow. His first monograph was Shelley's Poetic Thoughts (1981), and his most recent are Romantic Victorians: English Literature, 1824-1840 (2002), Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture after Waterloo (2010), Reading Victorian Poetry (2011), and George Meredith: The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist (2019). He co-edited Emma for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (2005), Robert Browning for 21st-Century Oxford Authors (2014), and A Companion to Victorian Poetry (2002). This is his ninth monograph.
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Introduction 1. My poem's epic 2. I want a hero 3. Especially upon a printed page 4. The gate of life and death 5. Allusions private and inglorious 6. Taking another tack 7. Mine irregularity of chime 8. This is a liberal age.
Introduction 1. My poem's epic 2. I want a hero 3. Especially upon a printed page 4. The gate of life and death 5. Allusions private and inglorious 6. Taking another tack 7. Mine irregularity of chime 8. This is a liberal age.
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