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Author Speer, Roderick S

Title Byron and Scott : the Waverley novels and historical engagement / by Roderick S. Speer
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 116 pages) : illustrations
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary Literary historians have repeatedly observed that while Scott as a poet was the first British literary lion of the nineteenth century, his fame was supplanted by Byron as a poet starting in 1812. But that is as far as they take the relationship seriously, for the two writers are traditionally thought of as very different, even as political and temperamental opposites. But in fact, the two writers met each other in 1815, liked each other, and cherished their friendship the rest of their live ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-113)
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Subject Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 -- Friends and associates
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Friends and associates
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 -- Criticism and interpretation
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 -- Influence
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 fast
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 fast
Byron, George Gordon Byron. swd
Waverley novels. swd
Subject Biography: literary.
Literature & literary studies.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Friendship
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009379966
ISBN 9781443809399
144380939X
1282413120
9781282413122
9786612413124
6612413123