The European Byron

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Jonathan Gross is Professor of English at DePaul University. He is the author of Byron: The Erotic Liberal, The Life of Anne Damer: Portrait of a Regency Artist, and Byron's Corbeau Blanc: The Life and Letters of Lady Melbourne.

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This book considers Byron's borrowings from Thomas Moore, Torquato Tasso, Percy Shelley, Ugo Foscolo, and Madame de Stael. The conclusion considers how Byron's ironic mode in politics in Greece influenced Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz and Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, encouraging other authors to imitate him, as he had imitated others.

The second half of the book treats Slavic responses to Byron's poetry: Mickiewicz's Forefather's Eve (Part Three) and Konrad Wallenrod; Byron's Mazeppa and Pushkin's Poltava; Pushkin's Eugene Onegin and the Literary Pilgrimage to Lord Byron; Byron's "Fare thee Well": Polish and Russian rejections of Byronism; Pushkin's "Farewell to Byron" in Eugene Onegin; and racial representations in Byron's "The Island" in the context of Pushkin's "Peter the Great's African" and the poetry of Countee Cullen.