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02298aam a2200313 i 4500 001 F84324021BC411EE999F3EC24CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230706011753 008 220428t20232023enkh b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022020709 020 $a 1009232959 020 $a 9781009232951 035 $a (OCoLC)1313118306 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d EAU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR4392 P63 M34 2023 100 1 $a McGann, Jerome J., $e author. 245 10 $a Byron and the poetics of adversity / $c Jerome McGann, University of Virginia. 264 1 $a Cambridge ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2023. 300 $a xi, 214 pages : $b facsimiles ; $c 19 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-206) and index. 520 $a "A long line of traditional, often conservative, criticism and cultural commentary deplored Byron as a slipshod poet. This pithy yet aptly poetic book, written by one of the world's foremost Romantic scholars, argues that assessment is badly mistaken. Byron's great subject is what he called "Cant": the habit of abusing the world through misusing language. Setting up his poetry as a laboratory to investigate failures of writing, reading, and thinking, Byron delivered sharp critical judgment on the costs exacted by a careless approach to his Mother Tongue. Perspicuous readings of Byron alongside some of his Romantic contemporaries - Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley - reveal Byron's startling reconfiguration of poetry as a "broken mirror" and shattered lamp. The paradoxical result was to argue that his age's contradictions, and his own, offered both ethical opportunities and a promise of poetic - broadly cultural - emancipation. This book represents a major contribution to ideas about Romanticism"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Byron, George Gordon Byron, $c Baron, $d 1788-1824 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Poetics. 776 08 $i Online version: $a McGann, Jerome J. $t Byron and the poetics of adversity. $d Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 $z 9781009232968 $w (DLC) 2022020710 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907012236.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F84324021BC411EE999F3EC24CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search