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Informationen zum Autor Anthony Howe is a senior lecturer in English at Birmingham City University. He lives in Birmingham, UK. Klappentext Byron and the Forms of Thought is a major new study of Byron as a poet and thinker. While informed by recent work on Byron's philosophical contexts, the book questions attempts to describe Byron as a philosopher of a particular kind. It approaches Byron, rather, as a writer fascinated by the different ways of thinking philosophy and poetry are taken to represent. After an Introduction that explores Byron's reception as a thinker, the book moves to a new reading of Byron's scepticism, arguing for a close proximity, in Byron's thought, between epistemology and poetics. This is explored through readings of Byron's efforts both as a philosophical poet and writer of critical prose. The conclusions reached form the basis of an extended reading of Don Juan as a critical narrative that investigates connections between visionary and political consciousness. What emerges is a deeply thoughtful poet intrigued and exercised by the possibilities of literary form. Zusammenfassung An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Byron and the Forms of Thought is a major new study of Byron as a poet and thinker. Introduction Chapter 1:'I doubt if doubt itself be doubting': Byron, Scepticism and Form Chapter 2: A 'voice from out the Wilderness': Byron's Cain and Philosophical Poetry Chapter 3: 'I wish to do as much by Poesy': Byron and Poetics Chapter 4: The need for 'all this': Byron and Literary Controversy Chapter 5: 'Glory's dream Unriddled': Byron, Politics and War Bibliography Index
