George Gordon, Lord Byron - Edited and with an Introduction by Harold Bloom

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A critical anthology centered on George Gordon, Lord Byron, presented as part of Bloom’s Classic Critical Views. Edited and introduced by Harold Bloom, it gathers major interpretations and biographical context, then organizes them into thematic divisions including personal writings, biography, and selected works such as Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Manfred, The Turkish Tales, and Beppo. The volume provides scholarly apparatus including references and an index, reflecting a structured approach to Byron’s literary legacy.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

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Pages317

Reading Time8 h 8 min

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Series Introduction

Introduction by Harold Bloom

Biography

Personal

Works

| Bloom’s Classic Critical Views | | --- | | GEORGE GORDON , LORD BYRON | Bloom's Classic Critical Views Alfred, Lord Tennyson Benjamin Franklin The Brontës Charles Dickens Edgar Allan Poe Geoffrey Chaucer George Eliot George Gordon, Lord Byron Henry David Thoreau Herman Melville Jane Austen John Donne and the Metaphysical Poets John Milton Jonathan Swift Mark Twain Mary Shelley Nathaniel Hawthorne Oscar Wilde Percy Shelley Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Browning Samuel Taylor Coleridge Stephen Crane Walt Whitman William Blake William Shakespeare William Wordsworth | Bloom’s Classic Critical Views | | --- | | GEORGE GORDON , LORD BYRON | Edited and with an Introduction by Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of the Humanities Yale University Bloom’s Classic Critical Views: George Gordon, Lord Byron Copyright © 2009 Infobase Publishing Introduction © 2009 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact: Bloom’s Literary Criticism An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data George Gordon, Lord Byron / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom; Heike Grundmann, volume editor. [p. cm](p. cm).—(Bloom’s classic critical views) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-60413-438-4 (acid-free paper) ISBN 978-1-4381-2759-0 (e-book) 1. Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788– 1824—Criticism and interpretation. I. Bloom, Harold. II. Grundmann, Heike. III. Title. IV. Series. PR4388 .G44 2009 821'.7—dc22 2009012454 Bloom’s Literary Criticism books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations, institutions, or sales promotions. Please call our Special Sales Department in New York at (212) 967-8800 or (800) 322-8755. You can find Bloom’s Literary Criticism on the World Wide Web at [http://www.chelseahouse.com](http://www.chelseahouse.com) Volume editor: Heike Grundmann Series design by Erika K. Arroyo Cover designed by Takeshi Takahashi Printed in the United States of America IBT IBT 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on acid-free paper. All links and Web addresses were checked and verified to be correct at the time of publication. Because of the dynamic nature of the Web, some addresses and links may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. Contents QQQ Series Introduction ix Introduction by Harold Bloom xi Biography xxi Personal 9 Hewson Clarke (1808) 11 Maria Edgeworth (1813) 12 George Ticknor (1815) 14 Sydney Smith (1816) 16 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816) 16 Thomas Carlyle (1824) 17 Thomas Medwin (1824) 18 Walter Scott “Death of Lord Byron”(1824) 19 Leigh Hunt (1828) 22 Gustave Flaubert (1838) 26 Marguerite, Countess of Blessington (1834) 26 Matthew Arnold “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse” and “Memorial Verses”(1850 & 1855) 28 Samuel Rogers (1855) 29 Edward John Trelawny (1858) 31 George Eliot (1866) 34 Joaquin Miller “At Lord Byron’s Tomb”(1870) 35 Oscar Wilde (1891) 37 William Graham (1898) 38 General 41 Henry, Lord Brougham “Lord Byron’s Poems”(1808) 43 Leigh Hunt (1811) 44 Friedrich von Schlegel (1815) 45 vi Contents William Hazlitt (1818) 46 Robert Southey “Preface”(1821) 48 William Maginn “Odoherty on Werner”(1822) 48 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1822) 51 Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1825) 51 Thomas Carlyle (1826) 51 John Quincy Adams (1830) 51 William Hazlitt (1825) 52 John Galt (1830) 61 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1830) 64 William H. Prescott “English Literature of the Nineteenth Century”(1832) 67 Thomas Babington Macaulay “Moore’s Life of Lord Byron”(1831) 6

FAQs

Who edited and introduced this Byron critical volume?

Harold Bloom edited the collection and provided the introduction.

What major Byron works are included in the book’s contents?

The contents list works such as Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Manfred, The Turkish Tales, and Beppo.

How is the material organized after the introductory sections?

After the series introduction and Harold Bloom’s introduction, the book includes a biography section and then groups commentary by themes and by Byron’s works.

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