'He Describes What He Sees': Byron's Letters from Italy*. (2nd January 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'He Describes What He Sees': Byron's Letters from Italy*. (2nd January 2017)
- Main Title:
- 'He Describes What He Sees': Byron's Letters from Italy*
- Authors:
- Howe, Anthony
- Abstract:
- Abstract: Beginning with Keats's influential snipe at Byron, 'He describes what he sees – I describe what I imagine', this essay examines Byron's ways of seeing as a writer, specifically in his letters from Italy. What emerges is a complex sense of place respecting which any simple distinction between real and imagined cannot hold. For Byron, Italy is to a striking extent a product of its successive imaginings through history. This leaves him sceptical about any authority assumed through the traveller's experience of place, and thus potentially at odds with his own privileging of being 'on the spot'. It places him, also, in an ambivalent relation to descriptive writing, which he repeatedly withholds as a correspondent.
- Is Part Of:
- Keats-Shelley review. Volume 31:Number 1(2017)
- Journal:
- Keats-Shelley review
- Issue:
- Volume 31:Number 1(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 31, Issue 1 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0031-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 66
- Page End:
- 73
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01-02
- Subjects:
- Byron -- travel writing -- Italy -- letters -- correspondence
English poetry -- 19th century -- Periodicals
Romanticism -- England -- Periodicals
Periodicals
Periodicals
821.709 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/ksr ↗
http://maneypublishing.com/ ↗
http://maneypublishing.com/index.php/journals/ksr/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/09524142.2017.1297090 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0952-4142
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- Legaldeposit
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