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ONLINE

1st ed.

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013

1 online resource (205 pages)

ISBN 9781781385555 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781846319716

Liverpool English Texts and Studies ; v.61

Print version: Howe, Anthony Byron and the Forms of Thought Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,c2013 ISBN 9781846319716

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter I -- Chapter II -- Part 2 -- Chapter III -- Chapter IV -- Part 3 -- Chapter V -- Chapter VI -- Coda -- Bibliography -- Index.

Byron and the Forms of Thought is a major new study of Byron as a poet and thinker. While informed by recent work on Byron’s philosophical contexts, the book questions attempts to describe Byron as a philosopher of a particular kind. It approaches Byron, rather, as a writer fascinated by the different ways of thinking philosophy and poetry are taken to represent.After an Introduction that explores Byron’s reception as a thinker, the book moves to a new reading of Byron’s scepticism, arguing for a close proximity, in Byron’s thought, between epistemology and poetics. This is explored through readings of Byron’s efforts both as a philosophical poet and writer of critical prose. The conclusions reached form the basis of an extended reading of Don Juan as a critical narrative that investigates connections between visionary and political consciousness. What emerges is a deeply thoughtful poet intrigued and exercised by the possibilities of literary form..

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