Full Description
For Byron, poetic achievement was always relative. Writing meant dwelling in an echo chamber of other voices that enriched and contextualised what he had to say. He believed that literary traditions mattered and regarded poetic form as something embedded in historical moments and places. His poetry, as this volume demonstrates, engaged richly and experimentally with English influences and in turn licenced experimentation in multiple strands of post-Romantic English verse. In Byron Among the English Poets he is seen as a poet's poet, a writer whose verse has served as both echo of and prompt for a host of other voices. Here, leading international scholars consider both the contours of individual literary relationships and broader questions regarding the workings of intertextuality, exploring the many ways Byron might be thought to be 'among' the poets: alluding and alluded to; collaborative; competitive; parodied; worked and reworked in imitations, critiques, tributes, travesties and biographies.
Contents
Acknowledgements; Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction Clare Bucknell and Matthew Ward; Part I. Inheritances: 1. Byron and Shakespeare Bernard Beatty; 2. Not for Envy: Paradise Lost and the Inward Turn in Byron's Cain Jonathon Shears; 3. Byron and Rochester Tom Lockwood; 4. Byron's 'Popifying': Twice-Told Tales Fred Parker; 5. 'Liquid Lines' and Della Cruscans: Byron among the Amatory Poets Clara Tuite; 6. Byron and Satire Post-1760 Clare Bucknell; 7. Byron's English Verse Inheritance Anna Camilleri; Part II. Contemporaries: 8. 'I ne'er mistake you for a personal foe': Byron and Wordsworth Madeleine Callaghan; 9. The Year of Publishing Dangerously: Barbauld and Byron in 1812 Susan J. Wolfson; 10. Strange Designs: Byron, Shelley, and Ottava Rima Ross Wilson; 11. Byron, Keats, and the Time of Romanticism Jonathan Sachs; 12. Broken, Wild, Untold Tales: Byron's Orientalist Poetry and Romantic-Period Narrative Verse Diego Saglia; 13. 'Lord Byron, poh! The man wot writes the werses?': Clare, Byron and Class Simon Kövesi; Part III. Afterlives: 14. In-Between Byrons: Byronic Legacies in Women's Poetry of the Late Romantic to Mid-Victorian Era Sarah Wootton; 15. Byron and Browning: Something and Nothing Jane Stabler; 16. Arnold's Ambivalence and Byron's Force and Fire Matthew Ward; 17. A.C. Swinburne and Byron's Bad Ear Richard Cronin; 18. What Auden made of Byron Seamus Perry; 19. Byronic Inflections in British Poetry since 1945 Gregory Leadbetter; 20. Byron among our Contemporaries Gregory Dowling; Index.
