Author: Alan Rawes

Winner of the Elma Dangerfield Prize 2018 Byron in Italy – Venetian debauchery, Roman sight-seeing, revolution, horse-riding and swimming, sword-brandishing and pistol-shooting, the poet’s ‘last atta …

Robert Burns has been a key figure in Scottish identity globally since his death in 1796. But he has always been much more than that. In America, his admirers have included Emerson, President Lincoln …

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Romantic biography lives. Despite the so-called ”death of the author”, popular interest in the lives of the major Romantic writers has reached a new peak. Romantic Biography brings together Romanti …

Romantic biography lives. Despite the so-called ”death of the author”, popular interest in the lives of the major Romantic writers has reached a new peak. Romantic Biography brings together Romanti …

In this study, the author examines the evolution of Byron”s poetry from Childe Harold I and II through to the composition of Beppo. Beginning with a close reading of the sustained poetic experimenta …

In this study, the author examines the evolution of Byron”s poetry from Childe Harold I and II through to the composition of Beppo. Beginning with a close reading of the sustained poetic experimenta …

Winner of the Elma Dangerfield Prize 2018Byron in Italy – Venetian debauchery, Roman sight-seeing, revolution, horse-riding and swimming, sword-brandishing and pistol-shooting, the poet’s ‘last attac …

Reading, writing and the influence of Harold Bloom takes the work of the world’s best-known living literary critic and discovers what it is like to read ‘with’, ‘against’ and ‘beyond’ his ideas. The …