{"product_id":"reading-byron-bernard-beatty-9781836245025","title":"Reading Byron: Poems - Life - Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003ePerhaps no great poet, in any language, has suffered more than Byron from being merely read about rather than actually read. As Bernard Beatty remarks in his introduction to this important collection of essays, the popular conception of 'Byron' still often approximates to 'Rupert Everett with a limp'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading Byron \u003c\/i\u003eis the product and summation of nearly sixty years devoted to studying and teaching his poetry. It argues that, far from being 'mad, bad and dangerous to know', Byron is serious, ethically orientated and rewarding to read. The book is in three parts: \u003ci\u003ePoems - Life - Politics\u003c\/i\u003e. Five new essays have been written especially for the first and largest section, which provides fresh perspectives on Byron's major works. The volume continues with three of Beatty's lively lectures on unappreciated aspects of Byron the man, and three pithy essays on Byron as a complex, if not systematic, political thinker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Beatty does not question the pre-eminent status of the 'bright' \u003ci\u003eDon Juan\u003c\/i\u003e, devoting a chapter to an unconventional reading of its final cantos, he argues powerfully that nineteenth-century readers, who responded on an unprecedented scale to the forceful poetic structures of the 'dark' Byron in \u003ci\u003eChilde Harold's Pilgrimage, \u003c\/i\u003eThe Tales, \u003ci\u003eManfred, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Cain, \u003c\/i\u003ewere right to do so. Introduced by Jerome McGann (editor of the great Clarendon edition of the poet's works) and concluded in dialogue with Gavin Hopps (co-editor of the forthcoming Longman edition), \u003ci\u003eReading Byron\u003c\/i\u003e is itself essential reading for any student or lover of Romantic poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bernard Beatty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1836245025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781836245025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.60d","brand":"Bernard Beatty","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453933662463,"sku":"9781836245025","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b9b24c2e-16f3-4306-85ad-b589cf68a6d3.jpg?v=1777303116","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-byron-bernard-beatty-9781836245025","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}