Byron Among the English Poets by Clare Bucknell, Matthew Ward - 9781108842655

Byron Among the English PoetsLiterary Tradition and Poetic Legacy\nAuthor(s): Clare Bucknell, Matthew Ward\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108842655, 978-1108842655\nSynopsis\nFor 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 withEnglish influences and in turn licenced experimentation in multiple strands of post-Romantic English verse. InByron Among the English Poetshe 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 br.