• Posts Tagged ‘mediation’

    Now Playing: Byron’s Manfred

    by  • March 9, 2012 • Fun, Research • 0 Comments

    Lord Byron’s first drama Manfred was published in 1817. While the play proved a commercial success, it never made it to the stage. In 1820, however, Marino Faliero was published and began being performed at Drury Lane later that year. As Thomas L. Ashton points out, Byron’s play is severely edited. Therefore, like Coleridge’s...

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    Romanticism: A State of the Union

    by  • February 25, 2012 • Research • 3 Comments

    Inspired by the President’s recent State of the Union address, I have decided to offer you, my Romantic brethren, a review of the state of Romantic studies. Despite our brooding Byronic ways, our Union is getting stronger. The house of cards may indeed have fallen, but our field is not languishing on the marble...

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