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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Sunday Jan 27, 2013
Shelley and Byron on Byron
Sunday Jan 27, 2013
Sunday Jan 27, 2013
Some discussion of what made Byron "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Letters to Lady Melbourne and to Thomas Moore. Byron's sexuality. His dog Boatswain. ("His dog was dead" -- Julian and Maddalo) Opening of Childe Harold III. Allegra. Ada Lovelace. Julian and Julian the Apostate. Shelley's characterization of Byron in Julian and Maddalo.
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