Lord Byron's Strength
Subtitle: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: November 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780801843556
Subjects: Biography: general; Poetry & poets: 19th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Byron, George Gordon Byron,; 19th Century English Poetry; Literature And Society; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Criticism and interpretation; Byron, George Gordon Byron; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 19th century; 1788-1824; Aristocracy (Social class) in literature; Authors and readers; Baron,; England; History
First sentence: In his introduction to a selection of Lord Byron's poems for the Golden Treasury series (1881), Matthew Arnold endorsed Algernon Swinburne's observation that Byron's power "lies in 'the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and outweighs all his defects: the excellence of sincerity and strength.'"