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Modernist Poetics: W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden Modernist Poetics: W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden
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Modernist Prose: Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner Modernist Prose: Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner
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Beyond Modernism: Byron in Contemporary Fiction Beyond Modernism: Byron in Contemporary Fiction
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Suggested Reading Suggested Reading
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34 Byron in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature
Get accessMark Sandy is Professor of English Studies at Durham University. He has published extensively on Romantic poetry and its legacies, including the monographs Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley (2005) and Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning (2013). He held a three-month Research Fellowship at the Armstrong Browning Library (Baylor University, Texas) during spring 2022. His latest monograph, Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment (2021), appeared in paperback with Edinburgh University Press in 2022. He is currently co-editing a four-volume collection on Loss, Memory, and Mourning (forthcoming, 2024).
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Published:22 October 2024
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This chapter explores how many twentieth- and twenty-first century poets and novelists self-consciously respond to Byron. The first and second sections focus, respectively, on twentieth-century poetic and prose responses to Byron. A darkly existential Byronic selfhood haunts W. B. Yeats’s poetic mythmaking and struggle for transcendence. By contrast, W. H. Auden’s Letter to Lord Byron (1937) celebrates the ingenuity of wit and accompanying mobility of self championed by Byron’s serio-comic poetry. Byronic questions about a self constantly in flux also inform the writings of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. The chapter’s final section summarizes late twentieth- and twenty-first century novelists’ reimaginings of Byron’s character, life, and legacy. Prompted by Caroline Lamb’s portrayal of Byron in Glenarvon (1816), writers ranging from Tim Powers to John Crawley have found Byron’s biography and literary legacy a source of inspiration for a diverse range of novels across an array of genres.
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