Description: Comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars on Byron's place in the English poetic tradition, his influences and his afterlife.
Brief description: Matthew Ward is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. He has published a range of academic articles in Romanticism, SEL, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Essays in Criticism, Cambridge Quarterly, and Keats-Shelley Review, on Romantic poetry and Romanticism, and the history of emotions and affect, as well as contributing to the Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron. He is a member of the British Association for Romantic Studies.
Review Quotes: 'This is an ambitious book ... contributors study both the voices that Byron invokes and the later voices that invoke him, ... Bucknell and Ward deserve praise for producing such a wide-ranging and thought-provoking volume.' Emily A. Bernhard-Jackson, Review19