Poets and Pretenders
John Sutherland, 2 April 1987
The Position of the Body
by Richard Stern.
Northwestern, 207 pp., $21.95, November 1986,0 8101 0730 9 Show More
by Richard Stern.
Northwestern, 207 pp., $21.95, November 1986,
The Setting Sun and the Rolling World
by Charles Mungoshi.
Heinemann, 202 pp., £10.95, February 1987,0 434 48166 1 Show More
by Charles Mungoshi.
Heinemann, 202 pp., £10.95, February 1987,
Conversations with Lord Byron on Perversion, 162 Years after his Lordship’s Death
by Amanda Prantera.
Cape, 174 pp., £9.95, March 1987,9780224024235 Show More
by Amanda Prantera.
Cape, 174 pp., £9.95, March 1987,
“... A super computer is programmed with every known fact about Byron: especially all the material in Leslie Marchand’s edition of the letters and Jerome McGann’s annotated edition of the poems. Thus loaded, it is interrogated on the grounds that the internal interactions of this data will create an artificially intelligent ‘Byron’ who can be conversed ... ”