Lord Byron at Harrow School : Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting up, Bowing Out.
Material type:
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- computer
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- 9780801875441
- Byron, George Gordon Byron,-Baron,-1788-1824-Childhood and youth
- Byron, George Gordon Byron,-Baron,-1788-1824-Knowledge and learning
- Byron, George Gordon Byron,-Baron,-1788-1824-Homes and haunts-England-London
- Harrow School-History
- Education, Secondary-England-London-History-19th century
- Boarding schools-England-London-History-19th century
- Poets, English-19th century-Biography
- 821/.7 B
- PR4382.E36 2000
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- 1: Tutor and Tenant -- 2: Virgilian King : 5 July 1804 -- First Interval -- 3:William Henry West Betty -- 4: Villain : 6 June 1805 -- Second Interval -- 5: Shakespearean King : 4 July 1805 -- Epilogue : ''The Sixth of June'' -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
To discern his initial experiments with identity formation, to watch his auditions, his inaugural performances of "Byron"--in the provincial run, so to speak, before his London premiere--to track the emergence of these constructs from a confluence of wondrous adolescent energies is to understand anew why and how enduringly certain events and relationships wrote themselves into the text that Byron famously became."--from the Prologue.
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