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<p><p>this Is The First Biography Of Byron To Focus On The Poet As A Professional Writer And The Circumstances Of Literary Production Of His Major Poems. It Shows How Byron Related His Writing To A Perceived Readership In His Experimentation With Genre And Style; And Negotiated With His Publishers In Establishing The Bounds Of His Challenge To Political, Sexual, And Religious Conventions. His Aristocratic Status Enabled Him To Combine The Face-saving Appearance Of Insouciant Dilettantism With A Writing Practice As Dedicatedly Professional As That Of Novelists Like Scott And Dickens.<br></p> <h3>booknews</h3> <p>franklin (english, University Of Wales) Focuses On The Poet Specifically As A Professional Writer And On The Historical Circumstances Of The Literary Production And Reception Of His Major Poems. She Examines His Phenomenal Popularity And The Cult Of Personality He Instigated, And Relates Them To His Textual Self- Representation. She Describes His Writing Practices, Illustrating The Way He Interacted With The Literary World, And Explores His Literary Friendships And Feuds, And His Collaborations With Other Writers. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or (booknews.com)</p

Author
Nancy A. Walker; Peter L. Shillingsburg
Publisher
Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press
Published
2000
Language
EN
ISBN
9780333714867
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Memoir, Poetry
Updated
2026-03-25

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