This tendency towards heresy is further explored in a conversation between Stephen, Heron, Nash and Boland in which they discuss writers and poets. ... Stephen's preference with Byron in response to the questioning of the greatest poet induces uproar and mockery from Heron in advocating that Stephen akin to "Byron was a heretic and immoral too"" [Joyce: pg. 61]. ... It is no accident that Byron is the poet with whom Stephen should be associated in this moment of danger, and consequent separation from the values of the crowd, or the mob, are richly intermingled with ideas of love, heresy a...

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Between the two poems, however, there are differences as well as similarities - the most obvious being probably intimately linked with the different dispositions of the two poets. While Coleridge fuses the natural with the supernatural in a nevertheless vivid description of one man's suffering in the open sea where he is left at the mercy of the elements, Byron's description is much more realistic as a portrayal of a man who is going through great psychological torment. ... In both poems, however, there seems to be no explicit reason for him being alive; while Coleridge employs a sup...

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Meanwhile, Claire who had been pursuing another married man, Lord Byron, succeeded in becoming his mistress. Claire, Percy, Mary, and baby William traveled to Genoa, Switzerland, to join Lord Byron. On June 22, 1816, at the age of 18, Mary had her "waking dream" that then inspired her to write Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus (Kimberly Woodbridge Summer of 1816) while staying with Lord Byron. ... Although deeply disheartened by his death, he still remained in her heart and acted as an extreme inspiration to the rest of Mary's fictions along with Lord Byron, Samuel Coleridge, an...

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Poetry of the period seemed to have exhausted its civic and moral spirit, peculiar to the works of the great masters of the past like Shakespeare, Milton and Byron. Therefore, the new generation of poets rose in a protest against the cultural values and traditions of the Victorian Age, trying to give English poetry a new creative urge. ... This contrast was a shock to the poet, and he expressed it in his early works (1909 - 1920). ... In 1936 the poet even attached Notes on the Waste Land to the edition in order to explain the work's many quotations and allusions. ... This event marked a...

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Some research suggests that highly creative people such as artists, composers, writers, and poets, show unusually high rates of bipolar disorder and that period of mania fuel their creativity. Famous artists and writers who might have suffered from bipolar disorder include poets Lord Byron and Anne Sexton, and novelists Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway. ...

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Hardly anything defines modern life better than the computer. Whether we like it or not, computers have infiltrated every aspect of our society. Today computers do much more than simply compute. For instance: supermarket scanners calculate our bill while keeping store inventory, computerized telep...

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