klasyki: Byronic hero

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The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron. Historian and critic Lord Macaulay described the character as "a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection". Both Byron's own persona as well as characters from his writings are considered to provide defining features to the character type. The Byronic hero first reached a very wide public in Byron's semi-autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–1818). Despite Byron's clarifying that Childe was a fictitious character…

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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt is a long narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. The poem was published between 1812 and 1818. Dedicated to "Ianthe", it describes the travels and reflections of a young man disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry and looking for distraction in foreign lands. In a wider sense, it is an expression of the melancholy and disillusionment which was felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. The title comes from the term childe, a medieval title for a young man who was a candidate for knighthood. The poem was widely imitated. It contributed to the cult of the wandering Byronic hero who falls in…

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18. Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–1818)

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Childe Byron is a 1977 play by Romulus Linney about the strained relationship between the poet, Lord Byron, and his daughter, Ada Lovelace. Of Linney's more than sixty plays, Childe Byron is one he identified as holding a "deeply personal" connection. In his own words, he approached it through "the pain of a divorced father who can't reach his own daughter." In his narrative poem, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Byron wrote of the female infant he left behind when he went into exile: "I see thee not. I hear thee not. But none can be so rapt in thee.” When Linney re-read these words in preparation for the play, he recalled "My daughter Laura, the actress... her mother and I were separated and di…

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George Noel Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular. Byron was educated at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. Following graduation, he travelled extensively in Europe, living for seven years in Italy, in Venice, Ravenna, Pisa, and Genoa, as he was forced to flee England after receiving threats of lynching. During his stay in Italy, he would frequently visit his…

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Byronic Measures: Enacting Lordship in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Marino Faliero. Jerome Christensen construes " Lord Byron's Strength " as a singular capacity for "consequential action" in a socio-historical situation in which, as Lukács' says, the "commodity form" has become "total." I question Christensen's characterization of the pan-textualizing consequences of Byronic action, and offer readings of Childe Harold and Marino Faliero that show how it remains beholden to an epistemological project not unlike the commodifying function it ostensibly repudiates. But I follow Christensen in attempting to offer an account of characteristically Byronic action in terms not of what it is but w…

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Byronic Ambivalence in <i>Childe Harold's Pilgrimage</i> IV

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The Giaour, A Fragment of a Turkish Tale is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 by John Murray and printed by Thomas Davison. It was the first in the series of Byron's Oriental romances. The Giaour proved to be a great success when published, consolidating Byron's reputation critically and commercially. There were twelve editions by 1814. A thirteenth edition was published in 1815.

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Beppo: A Venetian Story is a long poem by Lord Byron, written in Venice in 1817. Beppo marks Byron's first attempt at writing using the Italian ottava rima metre, which emphasized satiric digression. It is the precursor to Byron's most famous and generally considered most successful poem, Don Juan. The poem contains 760 verses, divided into 95 stanzas. The work was composed in Venice between September and October 1817 and first published on 28 February 1818. The work, initially comprising 95 stanzas and expanded to 99 in a subsequent edition, the 4th, was issued on 4 May 1818. The fifth edition was the first to name Lord Byron as the author. The work went through seven editions in 1818 alon…

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The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents: A Romance is a Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe. The novel was first published in December 1796, although the title page is dated 1797. It is the last book Radcliffe published during her lifetime (although she would go on to write the novel Gaston de Blondeville, it was only published posthumously in 1826). The Italian has a dark, mysterious, and somber tone which fixates on the themes of love, devotion, and persecution during the time period of Holy Inquisition. The novel deals with issues prevalent at the time of the French Revolution, such as religion, aristocracy, and nationality. Radcliffe's renowned use o…

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"Maid of Athens, ere we part" is a poem by Lord Byron, written in 1810 and dedicated to a young girl of Athens. The poem was first published in the 1812 collection Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt and Other Poems. It was included in the volume along with his major narrative poem, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, published by John Murray in London.

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Soil and Sublimity in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Cet article commence par une brève description des moyens par lesquels la terminologie et les conventions régissant la description de paysages sublimes informent le discours géologique de la fin du dix-huitième et du début du dix-neuvième siècle, tel qu’exemplifié par Theory of the Earth de James Hutton (1789) et Essays on the Theory of the Earth de Georges Cuvier (1813). Je ferai ensuite valoir que les réflexions de Byron sur l’érosion graduelle mais inévitable des empires et des cultures dans Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage et The Age of Bronze montrent une perspective (in)formée par la géologie, et que le sublime, dans ces poèmes, est produit…