Lord Byron's Strength
Subtitle: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: May 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780801843563
Subjects: Biography: general; Poetry & poets: 19th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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.'"