Byron and the Forms of Thought

Anthony Howe

ISBN 10: 1846319714 / ISBN 13: 9781846319716

Published by Liverpool University Press, 2013

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pp. 224.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Byron and the Forms of Thought
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846319714
• ISBN 13: 9781846319716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.

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.

About the Author

Dr Anthony Howe is Senior Lecturer in English at Birmingham City University. He is editor of the volume Liberty and Poetic Licence: New Essays on Byron (Liverpool University Press, 2008) and, with Professor Michael O'Neill, of The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013).