We are very pleased to announce the publication of Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry.
‘It is no great matter, supposing that Italy could be liberated, who or what is sacrificed. It is a grand object - the very poetry of politics. Only think - a free Italy!!! Why, there has been nothing like it since the days of Augustus.’
So wrote Lord Byron in his journal, in February 1821, only days before the outbreak of revolution in Greece, where three years later he would die in the service of the revolutionary cause. For a poet whose life and work are interlaced with action of multiple sorts, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to Byron’s engagement with issues of politics.
This volume brings together the work of eminent Byronists from seven European countries and the USA to re-assess the evidence. What did Byron mean by the ‘poetry of politics’? Was he, in any sense, a ‘political animal’? Can his final, fateful involvement in Greece be understood as the culmination of earlier, more deeply rooted quests? The first part of this book examines the implications of reading and writing as themselves political acts; the second interrogates the politics inherent or implied in Byron’s poems and plays; the third follows the trajectory of his political engagement (or non-engagement), from his abortive early career in the British House of Lords, via the Peninsular War in Spain to his involvement in revolutionary politics abroad.
Edited by Roderick Beaton and Christine Kenyon Jones of King’s College London, this collection is based on a selection of papers given at the 39th International Byron Conference in 2013, and is volume 18 in the series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London. The contributors are Jonathan Gross, Andrew Stauffer, Miroslawa Modrzewska, Anna Camilleri, Timothy Morton, Peter W Graham, Martin Procházka, Bernard Beatty, John Owen Havard, Alexandra Böhm, Peter Cochran, Michael O’Neill, Mirka Horová, Christine Kenyon Jones, Agustín Coletes-Blanco, Rosa Mucignat, Piya Pal-Lapinski, Alexander Grammatikos, Stephen Minta, Roderick Beaton and Paul Hamilton.
Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry is available from https://www.routledge.com/Byron-The-Poetry-of-Politics-and-the-Politics-of-Poetry/Beaton-Jones/p/book/9781472459633
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