TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howe, Anthony
AB  - Byron and the Forms of Thought is a major new study of Byron as a poet and thinker. While informed by recent work on Byron’s philosophical contexts, the book questions attempts to describe Byron as a philosopher of a particular kind. It approaches Byron, rather, as a writer fascinated by the different ways of thinking philosophy and poetry are taken to represent.  After an Introduction that explores Byron’s reception as a thinker, the book moves to a new reading of Byron’s scepticism, arguing for a close proximity, in Byron’s thought, between epistemology and poetics. This is explored through readings of Byron’s efforts both as a philosophical poet and writer of critical prose. The conclusions reached form the basis of an extended reading of Don Juan as a critical narrative that investigates connections between visionary and political consciousness. What emerges is a deeply thoughtful poet intrigued and exercised by the possibilities of literary form.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt5vjhr3
ID  - OAPEN ID: 648336
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 862135549
KW  - Literature
KW  - Don Juan (poem)
KW  - Lord Byron
KW  - Michel de Montaigne
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Pope
KW  - Prose
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/6e067e5a-0c75-4028-bb0d-33842998114a/648336.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30242
PB  - Liverpool University Press
PP  - Liverpool
PY  - 2013-09-20
SN  - 9781846319716
TI  - Byron and the Forms of Thoughtnull
ER  - 
