This page intentionally left blank CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM BYRON, POETICS AND HISTORY Jane Stabler offers the first full-scale examination of Byron’s poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time Responding to recent studies of publishing and audiences in the Romantic period, Stabler argues that Byron’s poetics developed in response to contemporary cultural history and his reception by the English reading public Drawing on extensive new archive research into Byron’s correspondence and reading, Stabler traces the complexity of the intertextual dialogues that run through his work For example, Stabler analyses Don Juan alongside Galignani’s Messenger – Byron’s principal source of news about British politics while in Italy – and refers to hitherto unpublished letters between Byron’s publishers and his friends revealing a powerful impulse among his contemporaries to direct his controversial poetic style to their own political ends This fascinating study will be of interest to Byronists and, more broadly, to scholars of Romanticism in general is Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee She is the author of The Longman Critical Reader on Byron () and Burke to Byron, Barbauld to Baillie – () General editors Professor Marilyn Butler Professor James Chandler University of Oxford University of Chicago Editorial board John Barrell, University of York Paul Hamilton, University of London Mary Jacobus, University of Cambridge Kenneth Johnston, Indiana University Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara Jerome McGann, University of Virginia David Simpson, University of California, Davis This series aims to foster the best new work in one of the most challenging fields within English literary studies From the early s to the early s a formidable array of talented men and women took to literary composition, not just in poetry, which some of them famously transformed, but in many modes of writing The expansion of publishing created new opportunities for writers, and the political stakes of what they wrote were raised again by what Wordsworth called those ‘great national events’ that were ‘almost daily taking place’: the French Revolution, the Napoleonic and American wars, urbanisation, industrialisation, religious revival, an expanded empire abroad and the reform movement at home This was an enormous ambition, even when it pretended otherwise The relations between science, philosophy, religion and literature were reworked in texts such as Frankenstein and Biographia Literaria; gender relations in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Don Juan; journalism by Cobbett and Hazlitt; poetic form, content and style by the Lake School and the Cockney School Outside Shakespeare studies, probably no body of writing has produced such a wealth of response or done so much to shape the responses of modern criticism This indeed is the period that saw the emergence of those notions of ‘literature’ and of literary history, especially national literary history, on which modern scholarship in English has been founded The categories produced by Romanticism have also been challenged by recent historicist arguments The task of the series is to engage both with a challenging corpus of Romantic writings and with the changing field of criticism they have helped to shape As with other literary series published by Cambridge, this one will represent the work of both younger and more established scholars, on either side of the Atlantic and elsewhere For a complete list of titles published see end of book BYRON, POETICS AND HISTORY JANE STABLER The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org © Jane Stabler 2004 First published in printed format 2002 ISBN 0-511-03000-2 eBook (Adobe Reader) ISBN 0-521-81241-0 hardback For NHR and MGQR all these things – like most things are a lottery – it may be as well at least to have the ticket drawn (, , pp –) Bibliography Whale, John, Imagination Under Pressure, –: Aesthetics, Politics and Utility (Cambridge University Press, ) Wilson, Frances (ed.), Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and TwentiethCentury Culture (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, ) Wolcot, John, The Works of Peter Pindar To which is prefixed Some Account of his Life, vols (London: Walker and Edwards, ) Wolfson, Susan J., ‘Keats’s Isabella and the “Digressions” of “Romance”’, Criticism (), – ‘Couplets, Self, and The Corsair’, Studies in Romanticism (), – ‘“Their She Condition”: Cross-Dressing and the Politics of Gender in Don Juan’, ELH (), – “A Problem Few Dare Imitate”: Sardanapalus and “Effeminate Character”’, ELH (), – Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism (Stanford University Press, ) Wollstonecraft, Mary, Political Writings, (ed.) 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Baudrillard, Jean Beattie, James , , Beatty, Bernard , , – Byron’s Don Juan Beaty, Frederick L , , Byron the Satirist Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher, John Philaster –, Beecroft, Mrs Beerbohm, Max Behman, Jacob Behrendt, Stephen C Bennett, Andrew , Bernini, Lorenzo Bible Daniel Deuteronomy Old Testament Psalms ‘Big Six’, the , biography Bishop, Elizabeth ‘The Bight’ ‘The Map’ Black, Joel Dana Blackstone, Bernard Blair, Hugh Lectures Blessington, Lord and Lady , , , – Bloom, Harold , , , , , Clinamen , Tessera , see also influence body, the , , Boileau, Nicholas , n Bolingbroke, Henry St John, first Viscount , Bonaparte, Napoleon , , , , , , , , , , , Bounty, The, mutiny on Bowie, Andrew Bowles, William Lisle , , , , , , , see also Pope, Alexander, Pope/Bowles controversy Index Boyd, Elizabeth French , British foreign/economic policy , , –, , British Library Brougham, Henry Peter, Baron Brower, Reuben Browning, Elizabeth Barrett , Aurora Leigh letter to Miss Mitford ‘Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron’ Browning, Robert Burdett, Sir Francis , , , , Burgess, Sir James Bland Burke, Edmund , , , , , Byron, Lady , Byron, George Gordon, Lord (i) biographical details alleged instability anti-Romantic, as aristocratic identity/disillusion , , , , , , , , –, , , , n arms/crest biograph/y/ical myth –, –, , Busby incident – casinos in Venice – death –, ‘divorce’ from publisher Drury Lane Theatre , epic style financial affairs –, , first political readings of – friends , , , , , , Guiccioli marriage , increasing professionalism influence of Charles Churchill – involvement in Portsmouth/Hanson scandal isolation at Lake Leman leaving England , , , , , , n letters , , , , , –, –, , , , , –, , , , –, , –, , , n library, sale of , , , , manservant marriage/settlement and separation , , , , meditation on gambling – mobilit´e , , , –n peerage , ‘perversity’ , , , political ‘ownership’ of his verse possible return to England Ravenna Journal Ravenna shooting incident Regency dandy, as rocking-horse glee shifting political identity – sister , n theatricality , visit to Churchill’s grave voting in Lords , , – (ii) writings Age of Bronze, The , , , , , –, , , , –, , , , Beppo , –, , , , Cain , Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage –, , , –, , , , , , , , , , , –, , n, n canto , canto , , , early cantos , , , , , ‘Churchill’s Grave’ Complete Miscellaneous Prose, The , , , , Complete Poetical Works, The – Corsair, The , , , , Deformed Transformed, The , , , ‘Detached Thoughts’ – Don Juan , , , , , , , –, , , , , , , , , , , , , –, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , –, , , , , , , , , , , –, , cantos and , , , , canto , , , , cantos and (writings between) – canto (‘harem episode’) , , , , , –, , –, , cantos and (‘siege cantos’) , , , , , , –, , –, cantos and xi – cantos and (writings between) , canto , – canto ‘English cantos’ , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ‘Russian cantos’ – dramatic writing , – English Bards and Scotch Reviewers , –, , , , , , ‘Epistle to Hobhouse’ ‘Fare Thee Well’ ‘Farewell Petition to JCH Esq.’ Index Byron, George Gordon, Lord (cont.) ‘Farewell to Malta’ , – Fugitive Pieces Giaour, The , , Hints from Horace , , , , , , –, , , , , Hours of Idleness , Island, The , , , , , , , , – ‘Isles of Greece, The’ Lara , , Letter to John Murray Esqre , , , , , , , Manfred , –, Marino Faliero , , –, Memoirs n ‘Observations Upon Observations’ ‘On Southey Detached Thought’ ‘On this day I complete my thirty sixth year’ ‘Parenthetical Address, by Dr Plagiary’ – Poems () Poems on His Domestic Circumstances Sardanapalus Siege of Corinth, The – ‘Some Observations Upon an Article in Blackwood’s’ , ‘To a Lady Weeping’ ‘To the Earl of Clare’ – Vision of Judgement, The Werner Byronic hero, the , , , Cambridge education , Campbell, George , , ‘Ship’ Canning, George , , , , , , n canon(s) , Carlyle, Thomas Sartor Resartus Castelnau, Gabriel de, Marquis , , Casti, Giambattista Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount , –, , , , Catherine the Great – Cato Street Conspiracy , Catullus , Cawthorne, James , censorship , , Centlivre, Susannah Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de , Don Quixote Chandler, James England in Chateaubriand, Francois-Ren´e, viscomte de Chaucer, Geoffrey , Christensen, Jerome , Christianity Churchill, Charles , –, , , , ‘An Epistle to William Hogarth’ ‘Dedication to the Sermons’ ‘Duellist, The’ Ghost, The –, n Gotham , Independence Journey, The Rosciad, The – see also Tooke, William Cixous, H´el`ene , class , , , , , , classical education/ideals/myths , , , , , , , , , , –, , , , , , see also Horace Cobbett, William , , Cochran, Peter Cockney School , , , , , , , , , , coffee house society Cohen, Francis (Francis Palgrave) , –, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor , , , , –, , , , , Biographia Literaria ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ Colman, George –, Colman, George (the Elder) –, commodification , , Conder, Josiah , conduct literature Congress/of Verona/system , , , , , Congreve, William , Love for Love – Mourning Bride, The Conrad, Peter Shandyism: The Character of Romantic Irony – Cooke, Michael G , country house , Cowper, William , , n Cox, Jeffrey Crabbe, George Croker, J.W , –, –, Croly, George Cronin, Richard , , – In Search of the Pure Commonwealth Crowe, William Index cultural hierarchy/high and low culture Curll, Edmund Curran, Stuart , Curtis, Paul – Curtis, Sir William , , Dallas, Charles –, Dante Alighieri , Darwin, Erasmus de Almeida, Hermione de Man, Paul De Quincey, Thomas , de Staăel, Madame – De La Litt´erature deconstruction , , , democracy/idea of , , , , , Derrida, Jacques jouissance desire , Diakonova, Nina difference , , , , displacement , dissent Dryden, John , , , , , , , , , Annus Mirabilis Mac Flecknoe , Dyer, Gary , –, , Eagleton, Terry Edgeworth, Maria Letters for Literary Ladies Elfenbein, Andrew Byron and the Victorians Eliot, T.S Ellice, Edward empire/imperialism , , empiricism Empson, William , England/Englishness , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , –, , , n London , , , , , England, A.B Enlightenment , epistolary conversation Erasmus, Desiderius erasure Essex, George, Earl of , Europe , , , , , , , , , evangelicalism , Fall, The fascism female sexuality/experience –, feminine, the , –, , , , , , –, , , , , , , , , –, –, , , , , –, n, n see also women readers and writers feminism , , , Fenelon, Francois Fielding, Henry , Amelia film , Chinatown Foote, Samuel formalist criticism Forteguerri, Niccolo Foscolo, Ugo –, Fowler, Alastair Fox, Charles , Fox, Henry France , , Paris Revolution , , , Franklin, Caroline , , Frere, John Hookham , Whistlecraft , Galperin, William – Garber, Frederick Gay, John The Beggar’s Opera gender , genius, definition of genre/generic boundaries , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , n, n, n George III George IV Giddens, Anthony Gifford, William , , , , , , , , , , , , , , n Baviad Gilroy, Amanda Godwin, William n Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goldsmith, Oliver –, –, , , She Stoops to Conquer The Good-Natured Man The Sister – gothic, the , , , Graham, Peter W (ed.) Byron’s Bulldog , , , Greece , , , , , , Greek Committee Guiccioli, Teresa , , Index Hamann, Johann Georg Hanson, John , Hardy, Lady Hartman, Geoffrey Haslett, Moyra , , , Byron’s Don Juan Hazlitt, William –, , , , –, –, , , , ‘Essay on Wit and Humour’ – ‘On Genius and Common Sense’ – ‘On the Past and Future’ n Spirit of the Age, The – ‘Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers’ – ‘hell’ (gaming club) Hemans, Felicia , ‘The Lost Pleiad’ Hessey, James Augustin historicism history , Hobhouse, John , , , , , , –, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , n, n, n ‘A Trifling Mistake’ Hogarth, William ‘The Bruiser’ ‘Sigismund’ Holland, Lord and Lady , , , , , , , , , –, n Hollander, John Homer , , , Iliad , n Hone, William Hope, Thomas Anastasius Horace –, , , , , , n Ars Poetica , , –, , see also poetics/poetic practices Hume, David Hunt, Henry , Hunt, John , , , , , , , , , Hunt, Leigh , , , –, , , , , , , , , , –, , n Autobiography ‘The Book of Beginnings’ The Story of Rimini , Ultra-Crepidarius Hunter, J Paul ideology , , , , imagination Inchbald, Elizabeth British Theatre India , influence , , , , n Ireland/Irishness , Irigaray, Luce , Iser, Wolfgang Italy , , , , , –, , , , , , , , Pisan circle , , , –, , , , n politics and Revolution , , n James VI and I Jardine, Alice Jeffrey, Francis , , , –, –, , , , , , , , Jews/Jewishness , Johnson, E.D.H , Johnson, Dr Samuel –, , –, , , , –, , , n Lives of the Poets Jones, Steven E Joshua, John Earl of Carysfort journalism/newspapers , , , , , , –, , , n Courier, The , , , , , court and social columns – crime columns – Herald, The Galignani’s Messenger , , , –, –, –, n, n Galignani’s Weekly Repertory or Literary Gazette , n Grub Street , n Morning Chronicle –, , North Briton pamphlet war Times, The , , Yorkshire Gazette n see also periodicals Joyce, James , A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Kames, Lord Keach, William Keats, John , , , , , , , , n, n Endymion – ‘Eve of St Agnes, The’ Hyperion poems ‘Sleep and Poetry’ , –, Kelsall, Malcolm , , , Kermode, Frank Index Kierkegaard, Søren Kinnaird, Douglas , , , , , –, , –, Kristeva, Julia Lacan, Jacques , , Law, the , Lafitte, Jacques Lake School/poets , , , , , , Lamb, Charles , Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (L.E.L.) landscape , , , , , Lawrence, Sir Thomas Leask, Nigel legitimation Lempri`ere, John Lennard, John libertinism , –, literary marketplace , , , , , , , see also commodification literary theory, use of , literary tour Liverpool, Lord Lockwood, Thomas Londonderry, Lady Longinus , Longman & Co (publisher) Luther, Martin Lyotard, Jean-Francois McGann, Jerome , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , –, , , , , Complete Poetical Works [of Byron] (ed.) – Don Juan in Context , – Fiery Dust The Poetics of Sensibility Mackintosh, Sir James Machiavelli, Niccol`o Malta , Mandeville, Bernard de Manning, Peter J –, , , , ‘The Art of Allusion’ Marchand, Leslie A Marvell, Andrew ‘The Garden’ Marxist criticism Mathias, T.J , Medwin, Thomas , , Mellor, Anne K English Romantic Irony Melville, Herman Merivale, John Herman Mill, John Stuart Miller, Nancy K Milton, John , , , , , , , , , , , n Paradise Lost –, –, , , , , –, n misogyny , n Mitchell, Leslie Modernism/male domination of –, modernity , monstrous, the –, , , , , , , , n Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley , Montaigne – Montmorency, Mathieu Jean F´elicit´e Moore, Thomas , , , , , , , , , , , n The Works of Lord Byron Morritt, J.B.S , Muldoon, Paul Mullan, John – Murray, John (publisher) , , –, , , , , , , , , , –, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Archive , , , , , , , , , n music counter-voice popular song Nabokov, Vladimir , nationality Nature/natural history/science , , Cuvier Memoirs of Mammoth Bones miners’ safety lamp n perpetuum mobile n Newbery, John The Art of Poetry on a New Plan – Newgate prison Newlyn, Lucy Newton, Isaac Nicholson, Andrew Complete Miscellaneous Prose [of Byron] novels/ists , O’Neill, Michael Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem Osborne, Thomas Ovid , Owenson, Sydney, Lady Morgan Ida of Athens Index Paine, Tom parliament , House of Commons , House of Lords , , , , (proxy book/voting in latter , , –) Parry, William partisan politics , anti-Jacobinism , Jacobinism , liberalism –, , radicalism , , , , , , , , , , , , , reformism , , , , , , , , , n revolutionary, the , , , n Tory/ism/press , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Whig/gism , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , patriarchy , patriotism , , , , , , , , Peacock, Thomas Love novels of n periodicals , , Anti-Jacobin, The, or Weekly Examiner , , , , Antijacobin Review – Blackwood’s , , , , , , – British Critic , , , , –n Critical Review , Eclectic Review –, , Edinburgh Review , , , –, , , , Gentleman’s Magazine – Journal Encyclop´edique Lady’s Monthly Museum Liberal, The , , , , , , Literary Chronicle Literary Gazette Monthly Monitor Monthly Review, The , Murray’s Magazine n New European, The Quarterly Review , –, , , , –, Rambler Scots Magazine Yellow Dwarf see also reviewers/ing Perri, Carmela Persius Peterloo phatic communication philhellenism , Pindar, Peter (John Wolcot) Pitt, William, ‘the Younger’ , , Plato , Plutarch poetics/poetic practices – allusion , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , –, , , , , , , , , , –, , , , , , , n, n, n, n, n ambiguity , –, , asides , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , association of ideas , balked movement ballad bathos blank verse , , , , , , n blanks for names burlesque , , –, , caesura canto see Byron, writings clich´e , close reading – closure collage , coterie verse couplets , , , , , , , –, , , , , , , , , , , , n, n decorum , , , , , defamiliarisation , , diversity n doggerel double entendre double rhyme echoes , , , , elegy , , enjambement , , n epic , , , , , , euphemism feminine rhyme , , , n footnotes –, , foreign words , , , , n, n fragment/s/ation , , , , , , , , gloss hemistich hudibrastics , , n imagery , , – improvisatori n incongruity , , n indelicacy n innuendo Index inspiration intertextuality , , , –, , , , , , , , –, n inverted commas irony , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , irregularity italics , juxtaposition , , , , , , , , , , n lampoon –, line lists lyric , , , , n masculine rhyme , metaphor , , , , , n metre military jargon missing lines n mixed forms/hybridity , , , , , , n monosyllables mood , narrative , , , –, , , , , , , , ‘New School’ ode – originality ottava rima , , , , , , , , –, , , , , , , , , , , , , , palimpsest paradox , n para-rhyme n parenthesis/brackets , , , , , , , , , , , , , , parody , , , , , , , , , , n pastoral , n periodical poetry personification picaresque Pindar/ics , plot present tense process of composing n prosody, rules of punctuation punning , , quotation/marks , , , , , , , reportage , – rhetoric , rhyme , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , n risk – romance , , simultaneity , slang , , Spenserian stanza , subscription poetry swearing syllable , syllepsis n tenor n terza rima , tone , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , translation , travel poetry typography , , unity , , , , , , , , , , , , n variant readings , – vatic, the vehicle n verse epistle , verse paragraphs n verse/satire , , , , , –, , , , –, , , –, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , n, n, n Horatian , –, , Juvenalian , , , , , , , , versification , , , , n word word play Pope, Alexander , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , –, , , , , , , , , , , n, –n, n, n, n An Essay on Man Dunciad, The , , , , –, , , , , n ‘Dying Christian to His Soul, The’ n ‘Eloisa to Abelard’ , ‘Epilogue to the Satires’ ‘Epistle to a Lady’ ‘Epistle to Bathurst’ Imitations of Horace Pope/Bowles controversy , , , , , , , , , , , , n Rape of the Lock, The Porter, Seymour Teulon – Portsmouth, Earl of Index Portugal postcolonialism postmodernism , , , post-structuralism , Pound, Ezra Cantos Pratt, Willis W , prayer book burial service , – pre-Victorian period Prior, Matthew , –, , , n Proust, Marcel Remembrance of Things Past psychoanalysis , , n public sphere , publishers/ing , , Pulci, Luigi , , , , , , , , n Queen Caroline –, , –, , n race Racine, Jean Rajan, Tilottama Dark Interpreter – reader response –, , –, –, , n reception , , , , , , , , , , , , –, , , , , , Reform Act Regency , , , religious belief reviewers/ing , , , , , , , , –, , –, , –, –, , , , –, , , , , –, , , , , –, , , –, –n Reynolds, Sir Joshua , , , , –, Discourses , Ridenour, George M Roberts, William , –, –, , Robinson, Henry Crabb Rochefoucault, Fran¸cois de la, Duc Roe, Nicholas Rogers, Samuel , Rose, William The Court of Beasts Ross, William T Rothschild, Baron Nathan Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Royal Society Ruskin, John , Russia Sappho Schlegel, Friedrich Schopenhauer, Arthur Schor, Naomi Scotland , – Edinburgh – Royal Tour – Scott, Sir Walter , , , , , , –, , , , sensibility , sentimental, the , , , , , , , , , n Shaftesbury, Earl of , Characteristicks Shakespeare, William , , –, , –, , , , –, , – Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus – Hamlet , , , , –, , n Henry IV , –, –, Henry V , – Henry VI Julius Caesar King Lear , , , , , , n Macbeth , , , –, , Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice, The Othello , –, , Richard III , , Timon of Athens Twelfth Night , , Winter’s Tale, The n Shelley, Mary , , , , , , Shelley, Percy , , , , , , , n Adonais Hellas Witch of Atlas, The Shelley, Sir Timothy Sheridan, Richard Brinsley , , School for Scandal –, The Camp Simpson, David sincerity Smiles, Samuel A Publisher and His Friends , , Smith, Charlotte Smollett, Tobias Solomon Sotheby, Merivale Southey, Robert , Joan of Arc Southwell, Spain , , , Spenser, Edmund see also poetics Steffan, Truman Guy , Stephenson, William A , Index Sterne, Laurence , , –, , , , , Tristram Shandy , –, , , Stevens, Wallace structuralism sublime/ity , , , , , , , , , , Swift, Jonathan , , , , , , , , , ballads Symonds, John Addington Tacitus taste , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Taylor, John television Terry, Richard Thayer, Mary Rebecca theatre/theatricality/drama , , , , , , 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Romantic Austen Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon Byron and Romanticism ed The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland Byron, Poetics and History ...This page intentionally left blank CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM BYRON, POETICS AND HISTORY Jane Stabler offers the first full-scale examination of Byron s poetic form in relation to historical... Introduction: Byron and the poetics of digression ‘Scorching and drenching’: discourses of digression among Byron s readers ‘Breaches in transition’: eighteenth-century digressions and Byron s... Dundee University Library, Edinburgh University Library, Glasgow University Library, the House of Lords Record Office, the National Library of Scotland, Stirling University Library, St Andrews University