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| Lord Byron was amongsth the first cultural celebrities.
His poetry took Britian and Europe by storm, whilst his persona
provoked first adulation, and then public execration. |
| This study - whilst it takes stock of the accumulation
of myths and misconceptions about Lord Byron - makes clear the
nature of his acheivements as the composer of beautiful lyrics
as well as satirical masterpieces. Byron emerged from his heritage
- John Dryden, Dr Samuel Johnson and Alexander Pope - but with
much greater fluidity as a writer and also with the self-searching
motivation to express some unpalatable truths about our appetites
and emotions before Freud got to them. |
| Andrew
Keanie is a lecturer at the University of ulster and
a musician. His most recent publication is Samuel
Taylor Coleridge in this Greenwich Exchange Student Guide
series. |
| About the Student Guide Literary Series |
| The Times Educational Supplement:
"The style of [this series] has a pressure of
meaning behind it. Students should learn from that...If art
is about selection, perception and taste, then this is it." |
