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OverviewPerhaps no great poet, in any language, has suffered more than Byron from being merely read about rather than actually read. As Bernard Beatty remarks in his introduction to this important collection of essays, the popular conception of ‘Byron’ still often approximates to ‘Rupert Everett with a limp’. Reading Byron is the product and summation of nearly sixty years devoted to studying and teaching his poetry. It argues that, far from being ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’, Byron is serious, ethically orientated and rewarding to read. The book is in three parts: Poems – Life – Politics. Five new essays have been written especially for the first and largest section, which provides fresh perspectives on Byron’s major works. The volume continues with three of Beatty's lively lectures on unappreciated aspects of Byron the man, and three pithy essays on Byron as a complex, if not systematic, political thinker. While Beatty does not question the pre-eminent status of the ‘bright’ Don Juan, devoting a chapter to an unconventional reading of its final cantos, he argues powerfully that nineteenth-century readers, who responded on an unprecedented scale to the forceful poetic structures of the ‘dark’ Byron in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, The Tales, Manfred, and Cain, were right to do so. Introduced by Jerome McGann (editor of the great Clarendon edition of the poet's works) and concluded in dialogue with Gavin Hopps (co-editor of the forthcoming Longman edition), Reading Byron is itself essential reading for any student or lover of Romantic poetry. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bernard BeattyPublisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Liverpool University Press Volume: 92 ISBN: 9781800854628ISBN 10: 1800854625 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 09 December 2022 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction (by Jerome McGann) Author's Preface 1. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Types of History 2. Acts of Will: Byron's Lara 3. Understanding Manfred: The Sense of an Ending 4. Cain: One Drama, Two Theologies 5. Empty Spaces in Don Juan: A Reading of the Norman Abbey Cantos 6. 1814: Byron at Albany 7. 1816: Byron at Seaham 8. 1819: From Venice to Ravenna 9. Byron, Liberty and Licence 10. Byron and the Paradoxes of Nationalism 11. Byron as Political Icon 12. Bernard Beatty in Conversation with Gavin HoppsReviewsReviews'This essay collection is a treasure trove containing the accumulated riches from a life of teaching and scholarship.' - Peter Graham, Professor Emeritus in the Department of English, Virginia Tech 'This essay collection is a treasure trove containing the accumulated riches from a life of teaching and scholarship.' - Peter Graham, Professor Emeritus in the Department of English, Virginia Tech Author InformationBernard Beatty is Senior Fellow in the School of English at the University of Liverpool and Associate Fellow in the School of Divinity at St Andrews. From 1988 to 2005 he was Editor of the Byron Journal. In 2019 he was awarded the International Byron Societies' Lifetime Achievement Award. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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