Byron, Poetics and History.(Book Review)

From: Wordsworth Circle | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Jane Stabler, Byron, Poetics and History

(Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 251. $55.00.

The many virtues of Jane Stabler's Byron, Poetics and History include a valuable ability to hold in a single thought different perspectives. The winner of a British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay award in 2003, the book is illuminating about and alert to the current state of Byronic and Romantic criticism, yet it sustains a bracing, graceful independence. It reveals a high degree of aesthetic sensitivity, even as it deploys original historical and contextual knowledge.

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