Reading Byron

The Byron Society

This is a book launch, wine reception and poetry reading for Bernard Beatty's  long-awaited new book "Reading Byron"

The Art Workers' Guild

<p>The most important thing to do with Byron is to read him rather than read about him. If we do so, argues Bernard Beatty in Reading Byron his third/new book on Byron, we will encounter not only the music and wit of his verse but also what early readers identified as his ‘force’ and ‘thought’.  They took this seriously and so should we. They responded deeply to ‘dark’ elements in his heroes and in his thinking which many twentieth-century readers and critics patronised or ignored. [Bernard] [Beatty] [Bernard Beatty] agrees that Don Juan is his greatest poem but argues that the forc of Byron cannot be fully registered unless we again attend to and find a way of reading his ‘dark’ poems and take his thought seriously.This book tries to show what such a way might be. This is the heart of the book and it is new but there are some shorter chapter on Byron’s Life and Politics which originated as articles or lectures but have been refashioned for the book. This is a new and timely approach to reading Byron by someone who has devoted much of his life to reading, writing, and thinking about him.</p>

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