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WebClearly, Byron’s writings and enduring reputation were, like shipwreck, suited to a sublime treatment and interpretation. Indeed, as the curator David Blayney Brown has noted, ‘To read his poetry, or to follow the … WebSep 8, 2024 · The history of the sublime is a history of imagining extinction. From its beginnings the Gothic form has repeatedly returned to tales of humanity’s dissolution and decay into an unthinkable universe. ... To elaborate upon the aesthetics of the eerie, we shall pass through another intermediate phase of the sublime and move from Byron’s ... the disk wasn\\u0027t burned successfully

WebMary Shelley wrote this novel in the summer of 1816 while visiting her friend Lord Byron in the surroundings of Geneva. The vastness and beauty of scenery truly inspired her writing, in which she uses the grandness of nature as an expression of the sublime. WebByron may have foreseen the difficulties involved in making this persona a witness who would be present with Don Juan in his various adventures and so decided to discard him. At any rate the "I" narrator is discarded before the first canto ends, and becomes Byron himself giving his opinions on various matters and communicating more or less ... WebLonginus, also called Dionysius Longinus or Pseudo-Longinus, (flourished 1st century ad), name sometimes assigned to the author of On the Sublime (Greek Peri Hypsous), one of the great seminal works of literary criticism. The earliest surviving manuscript, from the 10th century, first printed in 1554, ascribes it to Dionysius Longinus. Later it was noticed … the disk wasn\u0027t burned successfully