Description: This book offers the first full-scale examination of Byron's poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time.
Brief description: Jane Stabler is Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee. She is the author of The Longman Critical Reader on Byron (1998) and Burke to Byron, Barbauld to Baillie 1790-1830 (2001).
Review Quotes: "The book is illuminating about and alert to the current state of Byronic and Romantic criticism, yet it sustains a bracing, graceful independence. It reveals a high degree of aethetic sensitivity, even as it deploys original historical and contextual knowledge." Wordsworth Circle