Byron's politics

Kelsall, Malcolm

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“…(ll. [5][6][7][8] Byron confronts the government sardonically, claiming that people sacrifice their lives in order to enrich monopolists:…”

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The Political Dimension of Byron’s “An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill”

Karam

2014

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Byron‘s major poems, such as Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan, and others, are unmistakably flavored with political satire. It is therefore puzzling that a number of literary critics, with the exception of Malcolm Kelsall, Michael Foot, and Tom Mole, have avoided commenting in any significant manner on the political dimension of Byron‘s ―An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill,‖ a poem which is emphatically responsible for identifying him as a vibrant, political poet. In his ode, Byron demonstrates his capacity to fuse his political notions with a poetic sensitivity extending beyond rhyming verses. In this respect, the purpose of this paper is to position Byron‘s ode in its appropriate historical and literary frame, to examine its political affiliations, and to highlight the role Byron plays in displaying a synthesis between politics and poetics, a role cautiously avoided by other Romantic poets. Malcolm Kelsall claims in Byron’s Politics that Byron‘s poetry had essentially made no substantial political impact (50). Similarly, Michael Foot in The Politics of Paradise contends that Byron‘s political fervor ―existed independently of his poetry‖ (Qtd. in Coe para. 9). I differ with both and tend to agree with Tom Mole‘s assessment that Byron‘s ―An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill‖ is principally responsible for exhibiting him as a poet of an unmistakable political disposition.

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“…(ll. [5][6][7][8] Byron confronts the government sardonically, claiming that people sacrifice their lives in order to enrich monopolists:…”

Section: International Letters Of Social and Humanistic Sciences Vol 41mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Political Dimension of Byron’s “An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill”

Karam

2014

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“…He vented his frustration through an Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill, published anonymously in the Whig Morning Chronicle on 2 March. 64 Byron continued with his political career, but much scaled down. After 2 March he did not attend the Lords again until 19 March, and then subsequently 16, 20, 21 April, 19 June, 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, and 14 July.…”

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Politician or Poet? The 6th Lord Byron in the House of Lords, 1809–13

Beckett

2015

Parliamentary History

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of Rochdale, is known internationally as, perhaps, the most famous Romantic poet of his generation. His work continues to be read across the globe. As a peer (succeeding to the title following the death of his great uncle, the 5th Baron Byron, in 1798) he was entitled to a seat in the Lords, and this article covers the period during which he was active in the House. He took his seat in 1809, but most of his work in the Lords took place between early 1812 and the summer of 1813. Thereafter, his financial troubles, his stellar literary career, and his personal problems, led him to spend little or no time in the House, and he lived abroad between 1816 and his death in 1824. In 1812, before he had become known for his poetry, except among a small London elite, he began actively to cultivate a political career, and he made his maiden speech on the Framework Knitters Bill in 1812. Byron was a prolific letter writer, and from his published correspondence as well as other sources of contemporary information, it is possible to document his growing career in the upper House, and to see how a young peer might make his way into politics in the absence of a particular sponsor.

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“…The Hollands and the Oxfords had introduced Byron to a Whig elite that was, in Malcolm Kelsall's words, 'in crisis'. 6 The Whigs defended a legacy from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 that aimed for a balance of power between the Sovereign and the people; they hoped that the Prince Regent would create a Whig government in 1811, but he failed to do so. As a result, the Whigs had to content themselves with marginal gains and quotidian politicking; more substantial reforms were only to appear with the disintegration of the Whigs and the emergence of modern liberalism in the 1820s and 30s.…”

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The Bride of Abydos: The Regime of Visibility and the Possibility of Resistance

Mole¹

2008

Liberty and Poetic Licence

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Byron's politics

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The Political Dimension of Byron’s “An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill”

The Political Dimension of Byron’s “An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill”

Politician or Poet? The 6th Lord Byron in the House of Lords, 1809–13

The Bride of Abydos: The Regime of Visibility and the Possibility of Resistance

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