REVIEW: European Romantic Review
Taylor & Francis Online https://www.tandfonline.com Many thanks to Emily Paterson-Morgan , Director of the Byron Society, for her...
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READING BYRON
Bernard Beatty
REVIEW: PROJECT MUSE: “You just have to listen to him: try to hear his voice, try to follow his processes of his mind.”
Bernard Beatty. Reading Byron: Poems – Life – Politics. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi +266. $130.00 (hardcover)....
REVIEW: The Byron Journal, Volume 52, Issue 1. 2024
JONATHAN GROSS, DePaul University Many thanks to Jonathan Gross for his review in this latest issue of the Byron Journal. READING BYRON:...
REVIEW: Lord Byron—Seven Takes by David Mason
Thank you to David Mason, of The Hudson Review, for this latest review Excerpt: "The curse of comedy: we don’t take it seriously...
THE LRB PODCAST: Byron before Byron. Clare Bucknell and Thomas Jones
The London Review of Books podcast series has a new piece where Clare Bucknell discusses Byron's Don Juan with Thomas Jones, and talks...
London Review of Books: His Own Dark Mind, Clare Bucknell
Vol. 45 No. 23 · 30 November 2023 His Own Dark Mind - Clare Bucknell Reading Byron: Poems – Life – Politics by Bernard Beatty. Liverpool,...
SOMETHING POSITIVE: substantial truth and cultural gloom
Bernard Beatty’s video salute, from his office in Chester, to The International Association of Byron Societies, 47th Annual Conference,...
BOOK REVIEW: TLS, 26 May, Seamus Perry
Thank you to the TLS and Seamus Perry for the recent review. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/may-26-2023/ Excerpt here: "Coincidentally,...
VIDEO: Jerome McGann and Bernard Beatty discussing their new books
For those of you who couldn't join the interview between Bernard Beatty and Jerome McGann, discussing their new books and the continued...
BOOK REVIEW: The BARS Review, Peter Francev, Victor Valley College
The BARS Review, No. 59 (Autumn 2022) Bernard Beatty, Reading Byron: Poems, Life, Politics. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022....
BOOK REVIEW: The review of English Studies, Jonathan Sachs
Read full review here (login required) - https://academic.oup.com/res/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/res/hgad015/7056482 Excerpt:...
BOOK REVIEW: The high stakes of reading and of writing about Byron
Many thanks to Madeleine Callaghan, Senior Lecturer of Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield, for her review19 write up....
Reading Byron Book Launch - Bernard Beatty in conversation with Lord Byron
For the publication of his latest book, Reading Byron: Poems – Life – Politics, Bernard Beatty sat down with Robin, Lord Byron, to...
Reading Byron Book Launch - Poetry Reading
Bernard Beatty's latest book, Reading Byron: Poems – Life – Politics, argues that the most important thing to do with Byron is to read...
Reading Byron Book Launch - Audience Questions
Following an interview about his latest book, Reading Byron: Poems – Life – Politics, and a rendition of Byron's poetry, Bernard Beatty...
Book Launch at the Art Workers Guild, London, 15 November
Robin Byron (13th Lord Byron) interviewed the author, Bernard Beatty, about his book to be published 1 December in the US, and in early...
Dark Seriousness and a conversation at Kyiv Airport – how this new book came about
The book came about through a conversation in the early hours at Kyiv Airport between David Woodhouse and myself. We were on our way to...
INSIDE THE BOOK
Table of Contents Introduction by Jerome McGann Author's Preface 1. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Types of History 2. Acts of Will: Byron's...
‘Byron’ still often approximates to ‘Rupert Everett with a limp’.
Reading Byron, Liverpool University Press, to be published 1 November 2022 Perhaps no great poet, in any language, has suffered more than...
Byron's Don Juan, Routledge, 1985, republished 2017
"First published in 1985. What sort of poem is Don Juan, and how does it maintain its momentum through its long and often struggling...
IABS-Peter Cochran Award for Lifetime Achievement
The Joint Presidents created the ‘IABS-Peter Cochran Award for Lifetime Achievement’ to be given to a scholar who has demonstrated a...
About the author
Bernard Beatty
Bernard Beatty is Senior Fellow in the School of English at Liverpool University and Associate Fellow in the School of Divinity at St Andrews University. From 1988-2005 he was Editor of The Byron Journal. He is the author of three books on Byron and has edited five collections of essays on him. He was awarded a Lifetime award for Byron Scholarship in Ravenna in 2017. He has written widely on Romanticism, Dryden, Rochester, Dickens, Newman, literary theory, the Bible, and theology. He plays the organ and lives in Chester, England.
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