Byron Among the English Poets
Literary Tradition and Poetic Legacy

Comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars on Byron's place in the English poetic tradition, his influences and his afterlife.

Clare Bucknell (Edited by), Matthew Ward (Edited by)

9781108842655, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 July 2021

380 pages
22.5 x 15.7 x 2.6 cm, 0.669 kg

'This is an ambitious book … contributors study both the voices that Byron invokes and the later voices that invoke him, … Bucknell and Ward deserve praise for producing such a wide-ranging and thought-provoking volume.' Emily A. Bernhard-Jackson, Review19

For Byron, poetic achievement was always relative. Writing meant dwelling in an echo chamber of other voices that enriched and contextualised what he had to say. He believed that literary traditions mattered and regarded poetic form as something embedded in historical moments and places. His poetry, as this volume demonstrates, engaged richly and experimentally with English influences and in turn licenced experimentation in multiple strands of post-Romantic English verse. In Byron Among the English Poets he is seen as a poet's poet, a writer whose verse has served as both echo of and prompt for a host of other voices. Here, leading international scholars consider both the contours of individual literary relationships and broader questions regarding the workings of intertextuality, exploring the many ways Byron might be thought to be 'among' the poets: alluding and alluded to; collaborative; competitive; parodied; worked and reworked in imitations, critiques, tributes, travesties and biographies.

Acknowledgements
Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction Clare Bucknell and Matthew Ward
Part I. Inheritances: 1. Byron and Shakespeare Bernard Beatty
2. Not for Envy: Paradise Lost and the Inward Turn in Byron's Cain Jonathon Shears
3. Byron and Rochester Tom Lockwood
4. Byron's 'Popifying': Twice-Told Tales Fred Parker
5. 'Liquid Lines' and Della Cruscans: Byron among the Amatory Poets Clara Tuite
6. Byron and Satire Post–1760 Clare Bucknell
7. Byron's English Verse Inheritance Anna Camilleri
Part II. Contemporaries: 8. 'I ne'er mistake you for a personal foe': Byron and Wordsworth Madeleine Callaghan
9. The Year of Publishing Dangerously: Barbauld and Byron in 1812 Susan J. Wolfson
10. Strange Designs: Byron, Shelley, and Ottava Rima Ross Wilson
11. Byron, Keats, and the Time of Romanticism Jonathan Sachs
12. Broken, Wild, Untold Tales: Byron's Orientalist Poetry and Romantic-Period Narrative Verse Diego Saglia
13. 'Lord Byron, poh! The man wot writes the werses?': Clare, Byron and Class Simon Kövesi
Part III. Afterlives: 14. In-Between Byrons: Byronic Legacies in Women's Poetry of the Late Romantic to Mid-Victorian Era Sarah Wootton
15. Byron and Browning: Something and Nothing Jane Stabler
16. Arnold's Ambivalence and Byron's Force and Fire Matthew Ward
17. A.C. Swinburne and Byron's Bad Ear Richard Cronin
18. What Auden made of Byron Seamus Perry
19. Byronic Inflections in British Poetry since 1945 Gregory Leadbetter
20. Byron among our Contemporaries Gregory Dowling
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Poetry [DC], Literature & literary studies [D]