Tom Mole - Byron and the Difficulty of Beginning
Channel: Department of English, Arizona State University
Date: 2018-09-14

The Department of English at ASU presented Tom Mole, Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburg, who delivered the talk, “Byron and the Difficulty of Beginning.”

Mole's lecture explored Byron’s “anxieties about the poetic act of beginning” and his techniques for overcoming them, which included “revising opening lines, using translations from other poets to begin his poems, repurposing lines he had written in another context, multiplying prefatory paratexts, or [even] asking other people to make [the] decisions.” The talk emerged from his three recent books: What the Victorians Made of Romanticism; The Broadview Introduction to Book History, and Interacting with Print.

ASU Tempe campus
Tuesday, Sep. 4, 2018