Byron, Poetics and History [Paperback]

This book offers the first full-scale examination of Byron's poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time.Stabler offers the first full-scale examination of Byron's poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time. Responding to recent studies of publishing and audiences in the Romantic period, Stabler argues that Byron's poetics developed in response to contemporary cultural history and his reception by the English reading public. Drawing on new archive research into Byron's correspondence and reading, Stabler traces the complexity of the intertextual dialogues that run through his work. This study will be of interest to Byronists and, more broadly, to scholars of Romanticism in general.Stabler offers the first full-scale examination of Byron's poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time. Responding to recent studies of publishing and audiences in the Romantic period, Stabler argues that Byron's poetics developed in response to contemporary cultural history and his reception by the English reading public. Drawing on new archive research into Byron's correspondence and reading, Stabler traces the complexity of the intertextual dialogues that run through his work. This study will be of interest to Byronists and, more broadly, to scholars of Romanticism in general.Jane Stabler presents this examination of Byron's poetic form in relationship to historical debates of his time. Responding to recent studies in the Romantic period, Stabler asserts that Byron's poetics developed in response to contemporary cultural history and his reception by the English reading public. Drawing on new research, she traces the complexity of the intertextual dialogues that run through his work.Acknowledgments; Note on texts used; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Byron and the poetics of digression; 1. 'Scorching and drenching': discourses of digression among Byron's readers; 2. 'Breaches in transition': eighteenth-century digressions and Byron's eal3Ê