This comparative exploration of Bryon and Pope’s satirical portraits of men and women, their expression of love and forbidden passion, and their various poetic techniques shows the profound influence Pope had on the deepest recesses of Byron’s poetic thought.
Nicholas Gayle
Author's books
Byron and the Sea-Green Isle
This study of Byron’s last complete long poem, the comparatively neglected The Island, is the first to devote a whole book to the examination and contextualization of both the poetry and its poet. It also contains the first-ever published transcript of the holograph of the poem.
Why does Joseph Conrad’s universe feel so opaque and withdrawn? This unique study uses Object-Oriented Ontology to explore what lies hidden in his work, shedding new light on Conrad and articulating a metaphysical structure for his world, the universe, and ourselves.
Pope, the Odyssey and the Ontology of Language
This study examines Pope’s translation of the Odyssey through Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology. It explores the poems’ figurative language to uncover a withdrawn reality, contrasting it with a sensual world of shimmering objects from the quotidian to the bizarre.