Book contents
- The Orient and the Young Romantics
- Series page
- The Orient and the Young Romantics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 “The Book of Fate” and “The Vice of the East”
- Chapter 2 Byron’s Lament
- Chapter 3 The spirit of Oriental solitude
- Chapter 4 “The great sandy desert of Politics”
- Chapter 5 “Unperplexing bliss”
- Select bibliography
- Index
Chapter 4 - “The great sandy desert of Politics”
The Orient and solitude inThe Revolt of Islam(1818)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2014
- The Orient and the Young Romantics
- Series page
- The Orient and the Young Romantics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 “The Book of Fate” and “The Vice of the East”
- Chapter 2 Byron’s Lament
- Chapter 3 The spirit of Oriental solitude
- Chapter 4 “The great sandy desert of Politics”
- Chapter 5 “Unperplexing bliss”
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Orient and the Young Romantics , pp. 185 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014