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- Byron Among the English Poets
- Byron Among the English Poets
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Inheritances
- Part II Contemporaries
- Chapter 8 ‘I ne’er mistake you for a personal foe’: Byron and Wordsworth
- Chapter 9 The Year of Publishing Dangerously: Barbauld and Byron in 1812
- Chapter 10 Strange Designs: Byron, Shelley and Ottava Rima
- Chapter 11 Byron, Keats and the Time of Romanticism
- Chapter 12 Broken, Wild, Untold Tales: Byron’s Orientalist Poetry and Romantic-Period Narrative Verse
- Chapter 13 ‘Lord Byron, poh! the man wot writes the werses?’: John Clare, Byron and Class
- Part III Afterlives
- Index
Chapter 11 - Byron, Keats and the Time of Romanticism
from Part II - Contemporaries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2021
- Byron Among the English Poets
- Byron Among the English Poets
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Inheritances
- Part II Contemporaries
- Chapter 8 ‘I ne’er mistake you for a personal foe’: Byron and Wordsworth
- Chapter 9 The Year of Publishing Dangerously: Barbauld and Byron in 1812
- Chapter 10 Strange Designs: Byron, Shelley and Ottava Rima
- Chapter 11 Byron, Keats and the Time of Romanticism
- Chapter 12 Broken, Wild, Untold Tales: Byron’s Orientalist Poetry and Romantic-Period Narrative Verse
- Chapter 13 ‘Lord Byron, poh! the man wot writes the werses?’: John Clare, Byron and Class
- Part III Afterlives
- Index
Summary
At first glance, Byron and Keats make an unlikely pair. Keats dismissed Byron as being merely interested in cutting a figure and pinned his literary success to the advantages of being six feet tall and a lord, while Byron disdained ‘that little dirty blackguard KEATES’ and snobbishly suggested he was spoiled by ‘Cockneyfying & Suburbing’ (BLJ, VII. 229; VIII. 102). The one was a middle-class poet who died young with little fanfare and a relatively slim output of published work. The other was a nobleman, a world-famous celebrity, with a prolific output of bestselling poems. But what might we learn about each poet by thinking about them together? And what might their pairing tell us about Romanticism more broadly?
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- Byron Among the English PoetsLiterary Tradition and Poetic Legacy, pp. 188 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021