Byron : a literary life /
"This is the first biography of Byron to focus on the poet as a professional writer and the circumstances of literary production of his major poems. It shows how Byron related his writing to a perceived readership in his experimentation with genre and style; and negotiated with his publishers i...
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| Lingua: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2000.
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| Serie: | Literary lives (New York, N.Y.)
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Sommario:
- Prelude: Byron's Gothic Inheritance
- The Noble Poet and "the Trade"
- The Traveler from the East Meets the "Emperor of the West"
- The Acting of Tragedy and the Tragedy of Acting
- From Pilgrim to Patriot
- The Bookseller to the Admiralty and the Board of Longitude Beset by Pirates
- The Eagle, the Wren and the Snake.