Volume 40, Number 11 · June 10, 1993
Byron Lives!
By Anne Barton
Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works, Vol. VII
edited by Jerome J. McGann
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 445 pp., $85.00
The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. I, Poems, 1807–1818
edited by Alice Levine, edited by Jerome J. McGann
Garland Publishing, 250 pp., $91.00
The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. II, 'Don Juan,' Cantos I–V Manuscript
edited by Alice Levine, edited by Jerome J. McGann
Garland Publishing, 336 pp., $102.00
The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. III, Poems, 1819–1822
edited by Alice Levine, edited by Jerome J. McGann
Garland Publishing, 449 pp., $183.00
The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. IV, Miscellaneous Poems
edited by Alice Levine, edited by Jerome J. McGann
Garland Publishing, 262 pp., $102.00
The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. V, 'Don Juan,' Cantos VI–VII Manuscript
edited and transcribed by Andrew Nicholson
Garland Publishing, 173 pp., $75.00
The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. VI, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Critical Composite Edition
edited by David V. Erdman, edited by David Worrall
Garland Publishing, 481 pp., $211.00
The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Lord Byron, Vol. VII, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III
edited by T.A.J. Burnett
Garland Publishing, 219 pp., $83.00
Byron's Heroines
by Caroline Franklin
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 280 pp., $59.00
Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society
by Jerome Christensen
Johns Hopkins University Press, 426 pp., $34.95
In 1937, T. S. Eliot described Byron as the Romantic poet 'most nearly remote from the sympathies of every living critic,' and called for 'half a dozen essays' in order 'to see what agreement could be reached.' Eliot's own contribution to this putative critical consensus makes curious reading now. After some brilliant if glancing appreciations and aperçus—Byron as a Scottish poet, the narrative gifts exemplified in a verse tale like The Giaour, the precision of the satire on English society in the last cantos of Don Juan—Eliot insists that he has addressed only 'the qualities and defects visible in his work, and important in estimating [Byron's] work,' not 'the private life, with which I am not concerned.'
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