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1 The literature of Italy in Byron’s poems of 1817– 20

Abstract

This chapter focuses on Byron’s The Lament of Tasso and The Prophecy of Dante alongside his translations of Filicaja in the fourth canto of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Pulci’s Morgante Maggiore. It begins by exploring the ways in which Byron ‘exploited both the writings and the figures of Italian writers (especially the exiled Dante and imprisoned Tasso) to construct his own cosmopolitan poetic identity’, reinventing himself as simultaneously – and ambiguously – an English and an Italian poet. In the translation of Pulci, however, Byron stresses his foreignness to both British and Italian poetic traditions, cutting a cosmopolitan figure not through identity but difference. While in his letters – and, of course, many of his poems – Byron is both British and Italian, Italian literature could also offer the poet a way of being neither.

Abstract

This chapter focuses on Byron’s The Lament of Tasso and The Prophecy of Dante alongside his translations of Filicaja in the fourth canto of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Pulci’s Morgante Maggiore. It begins by exploring the ways in which Byron ‘exploited both the writings and the figures of Italian writers (especially the exiled Dante and imprisoned Tasso) to construct his own cosmopolitan poetic identity’, reinventing himself as simultaneously – and ambiguously – an English and an Italian poet. In the translation of Pulci, however, Byron stresses his foreignness to both British and Italian poetic traditions, cutting a cosmopolitan figure not through identity but difference. While in his letters – and, of course, many of his poems – Byron is both British and Italian, Italian literature could also offer the poet a way of being neither.

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  1. Front matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Notes on contributors vii
  4. Abbreviations x
  5. Byron in Italy xi
  6. Introduction 1
  7. 1 The literature of Italy in Byron’s poems of 1817– 20 23
  8. 2 Byron’s ethnographic eye 44
  9. 3 From Lord Nelvil to Dugald Dalgetty 61
  10. 4 The garden of the world 77
  11. 5 ‘Something I have seen or think it possible to see’ 94
  12. 6 ‘Something sensible to grasp at’ 112
  13. 7 The politics of the unities 130
  14. 8 Parisina, Mazeppa and Anglo-Italian displacement 149
  15. 9 This ‘still exhaustless mine’ 166
  16. 10 Playing with history 188
  17. 11 ‘Where shall I turn me?’ 208
  18. Select bibliography 227
  19. Index 241
Byron and Italy
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Byron and Italy
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526126078.00007

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Notes on contributors vii
  4. Abbreviations x
  5. Byron in Italy xi
  6. Introduction 1
  7. 1 The literature of Italy in Byron’s poems of 1817– 20 23
  8. 2 Byron’s ethnographic eye 44
  9. 3 From Lord Nelvil to Dugald Dalgetty 61
  10. 4 The garden of the world 77
  11. 5 ‘Something I have seen or think it possible to see’ 94
  12. 6 ‘Something sensible to grasp at’ 112
  13. 7 The politics of the unities 130
  14. 8 Parisina, Mazeppa and Anglo-Italian displacement 149
  15. 9 This ‘still exhaustless mine’ 166
  16. 10 Playing with history 188
  17. 11 ‘Where shall I turn me?’ 208
  18. Select bibliography 227
  19. Index 241
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