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6 Exile and Sublimity Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage III, the Separation Poems, and ‘Darkness’
Get accessPhilip Shaw is Professor of Romantic Studies at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Wordsworth After War: Recovering Peace in the Later Poetry (2023), The Sublime (2006; republished 2017), Suffering and Sentiment in Romantic Military Art (2014), Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination (2002), and numerous essays on Wordsworth, Byron, and other writers and artists of the Romantic period. His edited and co-edited collections include Visual Culture and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (2017), Literature and Authenticity, 1780–1900: Essays in Honour of Vincent Newey (2011), and Romantic Wars: Studies in Culture and Conflict, 1789–1822 (2000).
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Published:22 October 2024
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Abstract
This chapter examines the concept of the sublime in the poetry written by Byron following the collapse of his marriage and subsequent exile from British society. It engages initially with lyric poems written on ‘His Own Domestic Circumstances’ and on the downfall of Napoleon (1814–15) before going on to discuss the links between violence, separation, and the sublime in Canto III of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. The chapter concludes with readings of ‘Darkness’ and other shorter poems written in the summer of 1816. Theorists of the sublime discussed in the chapter include Longinus, Edmund Burke, Maurice Blanchot, and Anne Carson.
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