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Title: Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I
Essay 3: Byron

Author: John Morley

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CRITICAL MISCELLANIES

BY

JOHN MORLEY

VOL. I.

ESSAY 3: BYRON

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1904

BYRON

Byron's influence in Europe 203

In England 204

Criticism not concerned with Byron's private life 208

Function of synthetic criticism 210

Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212

Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213

Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218

Revolutionary sentimentalism 220

And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222

Byron's reasonableness 223

Size and difficulties of his subject 224

His mastery of it 224

The reflection of Danton in Byron 230

The reactionary influence upon him 232

Origin of his apparent cynicism 234

His want of positive knowledge 235

AEsthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236

Significance of his dramatic predilections 240

His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241

Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242

His public career better than one side of his creed 245

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