Byron and Bob

Lord Byron’s Relationship with Robert Southey
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4438-1844-5
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten

Byron and Bob is the first book ever to be dedicated to the most important literary relationship in Byron’s career – that with the Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, whom he hated, and to whom he “dedicated” his most important poem, Don Juan. Drawing on much unseen manuscript material, Peter Cochran shows that although Byron’s antipathy towards Southey was at first a normal literary distaste, it became, the more he ingested his private image of Southey, a projected self-distrust, a dislike of everything in himself with which he was unhappy.

The book has as appendix a double edition of the two Visions of Judgement, firstly Southey’s original, and then Byron’s travesty, in which he has succeeded in rendering his enemy ridiculous to all succeeding generations. These two important works have not been published together for many years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cochran, Peter

Über Autor(innen)

Cochran, Peter
Peter Cochran is responsible for the editions of Byron’s works and correspondence on the website of the International Byron Society. He is editor of the Newstead Byron Society Review, and has lectured on Byron all over the world. For CSP he has edited or written Byron and Orientalism, Byron at the Theatre, Byron in London, The Gothic Byron, “Romanticism” – and Byron, and Byron at the Theatre.

Peter Cochran is responsible for the editions of Byron’s works and correspondence on the website of the International Byron Society. He is editor of the Newstead Byron Society Review, and has lectured on Byron all over the world. For CSP he has edited or written Byron and Orientalism, Byron at the Theatre, Byron in London, The Gothic Byron, “Romanticism” – and Byron, and Byron at the Theatre.