'The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley' explores the poetic heroism developed in Byron and Shelley's poetry and drama. The book traces how the heroism of the poet, as an idea, an ideal and an illusion, undergoes many different incarnations...
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'The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley' explores the poetic heroism developed in Byron and Shelley's poetry and drama. The book traces how the heroism of the poet, as an idea, an ideal and an illusion, undergoes many different incarnations and definitions as both poets shape distinctive and changing conceptions of the hero throughout their careers. Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Texts and Abbreviations -- Chapters (Int-Con) -- Part I Byron -- Chapter One 'A Tyrant-Spell': The Byronic (Poet-) Hero in Manfred, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Beppo -- Chapter Two 'Degraded to A Doge': Inappropriate Poetic Heroism in Marino Faliero -- Chapter Three 'Thoughts Unspeakable': Poetic Heroism Under Pressure in Cain and the Deformed Transformed -- Chapter Four Poetic Heroism and Authority: Don Juan and 'Epistle to Augusta' -- Interchapter -- Chapter Five 'As we Wish Our Souls to be': Julian and Maddalo and the Island -- Part II Shelley -- Chapter Six 'The Highest Idealism of Passion and of Power': Shelley's Heroic Poetics... -- Chapter Seven 'Holy and Heroic Verse': The Revolutionary Poet-Heroes of Laon and Cythna -- Chapter Eight 'This Soul Out of My Soul': The Trial of the Poet-Hero In Shelley's Epipsychidion -- Chapter Nine 'His Mute Voice': The Two Heroes of Adonais -- Conclusion The Byronic and the Shelleyan Poet-Hero -- End Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.
