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Chapter 15 - Libertinism

from Part II - Political, Social and Intellectual Transformations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2019

By
Adam Komisaruk
Edited by
Clara Tuite
Clara Tuite
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
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In the biographical foreword to his ten-volume edition of Pope (1806), the Rev. William Lisle Bowles observed that the poet often “appears to have felt a sort of libertine love, which his passions continually prompted him to declare; but which the consciousness of his infirmities, and we ought to add his moral feelings, corrected and restrained.” Byron seized indignantly on the first phrase, asking:

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Byron in Context , pp. 124 - 130
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Libertinism
  • Edited by Clara Tuite, University of Melbourne
  • Book: Byron in Context
  • Online publication: 04 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316850435.016
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  • Libertinism
  • Edited by Clara Tuite, University of Melbourne
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  • Libertinism
  • Edited by Clara Tuite, University of Melbourne
  • Book: Byron in Context
  • Online publication: 04 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316850435.016
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