Hail, Muse!
Seamus Perry: Byron v. Shelley, 6 February 2003
The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time
by Ian Gilmour.
Chatto, 410 pp., £25, June 2002,0 7011 7110 3 Show More
by Ian Gilmour.
Chatto, 410 pp., £25, June 2002,
Byron and Romanticism
by Jerome McGann.
Cambridge, 321 pp., £47.50, August 2002,0 521 80958 4 Show More
by Jerome McGann.
Cambridge, 321 pp., £47.50, August 2002,
“... whom he quickly saw had been ‘corrupted by the world’. Shelley doesn’t feature much in Jerome McGann’s Byron and Romanticism, but he could have done: the Romanticism to which McGann opposes Byron might be exemplified by Shelley as well as by Wordsworth and Coleridge, the usual suspects. (Shelley’s politics ... ”