Byron's Ballroom Poetics and the Echoes of War.
This article traces what we call Byron's 'ballroom poetics' through Waltz, Don Juan, and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage III. Why, we ask, do balls so frequently serve as an occasion to introduce matters of war? Byron's frequent invocation of war and wartime in connection with balls and celebration, we s...
| Publicado en: | Byron Journal Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 89 - 103 |
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Liverpool University Press / Journals
2022
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