Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia.(Byron, Poetics and History)(Book Review)

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Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia. By STEPHEN CHEEKE. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2003. x+241 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-4039-0403-0.

Byron, Poetics and History. By JANE STABLER. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2002. xiv+251 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $55. ISBN 0-521-81241-0.

Readers with an interest in Byron will have encountered some of the arguments of these books before in advance articles by Stabler and Cheeke in the Byron Journal (vol. 26, 1998, and vol. 27, 1999, ...

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