Year: 2022 | Month: June | Volume 8 | Issue 1
A Study on Impact which Byron, Most Eurocentred of all the English Romantic Writers
DOI:10.30954/2454-4132.1.2022.16
Abstract:
It is interesting to note in this context that Byron did not have a very high opinion about poetry. He did not share the exalted notions that the other Romantics had about poetry in general. The other poets of the age put poetry on a very high pedestal and wove a halo of glory around it. Thus, we find Wordsworth declaring that “poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.” Again, we find him saying that “poetry is the first and last of all knowledge; it is as immortal as the heart of man;” and that it is “ the most philosophical of all writings.” Shelley, in the same vein, is found declaring that a poem “is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth,” that poetry is “the record of the best and happiest moments of happiest and best minds,” and that it is “at once the centre and circumference of all knowledge.” He goes so far as to say that poets are” the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
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