"I am more fit to die than people think": Byron on immortality.(Lord George Gordon Byron)(Critical essay)

From: Christianity and Literature | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Stevens, Harold Ray | Copyright information

"What is Poetry?--The Feeling of a Former world and a Future."

Byron, Ravenna Journal

Elizabeth Longford affirms a commonly accepted view that Byron "mocked the idea of Christian immortality" by citing one of his best-known letters on the subject: "And our carcases, which are to rise again, are they worth raising? I hope, if mine is, that I shall have a better pair of legs than I have moved on these two-and-twenty years, or I shall be sadly behind in the sque...

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