I forgot to say that John Murray (Byron's publishers and
now part of a conglomerate) are publishers of Fiona Macarthy's
book hence their natural prominence in the programme.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Douglas Clark wrote:
> I enjoyed the programme. I thought it was as good as you
> could get and liked the extracts. Funnily enough Camille
> Paglia's chapter on Byron was next on my readinglist and
> I read it after the programme. I thought Michael Peverett
> a bit over the top in his chriticism. They got it about
> right.
>
> Funnily enough Fiona Macarthy's new biography (the reason
> for the programme) was vigorously attacked in the TLS
> cos she didnt like Byron and it came out in the text
> and wasnt liked by the reviewer. The programme was very
> sympathetic to Byron and a negative case could be constructed,
> but I prefer to look on his good side.
>
>
>
> Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
> Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
>
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, paul murphy wrote:
>
> >
> > I thought this prog failed because, instead of finding its own vision of
> > Byron, it simply relied on previous footage used in progs on Lord B, both
> > from Beeb and ITV sources I thought. However, I still found the prog
> > reasonably stimulating, and found out new things, esp about the lungs. I
> > was once on my way to Missolonghi, by the way, no doubt to be infected by
> > the various swamp fevers that trouble that region, when I was
> > miraculously re-directed to Drama, Macedonia, at the last moment. The
> > Greeks still go on about the wasted centuries when they were part of the
> > Ottoman Empire.
> >
> > >From: cris cheek
> > >Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry
> > and poetics
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >Subject: FW: Byron
> > >Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 00:33:32 +0000
> > >
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >i'm taking what might appear to be an untenable liberty of complying
> > with
> > >Michael's request in this respect. I hope it doesn't get into
> > cross-posting
> > >in a negative way. I'd reply to him direct.
> > >
> > >----------
> > >
> > >From: Michael Peverett
> > >Reply-To: Michael Peverett
> > >Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 22:27:10 +0000
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >Subject: Byron
> > >
> > >Last night's predictably awful TV programme "about" Byron - it was
> > really
> > >just TV about TV - at one moment unexpectedly roused my interest. It
> > >referred to "The Corsair" (1814) as "a tale of incestuous love" (of
> > course,
> > >in relation to blah about Augusta Leigh and her daughter Medora).
> > >
> > >Since I've recently been reading "The Corsair" to death and have never
> > >noticed the slightest hint of incestuous love, can anyone point out to
> > me
> > >where in the text this is hiding? Alternatively, if this is one of those
> > >Byron myths, how did it originate? (it doesn't originate with the BBC; I
> > >have found it repeated - though not elucidated - a couple of times on
> > the
> > >web.)
> > >
> > >Obviously this is probably the wrong list on which to make this query,
> > but
> > >it's the only one I belong to, so if someone could forward it to
> > POETRYETC
> > >that would be a great kindness.
> >
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