Byron considered Alexander Pope--an important satirist in the Age of Reason--as a model for him and his writing, thus influencing his own satirical style. ... The spirit of Napoleon served as a "spur to Byron's own ambition, his dissidence, the glamour of his arrogancethat permeates his writing" (MacCarthy vii). ... Byron is truthfully cruel in his writing while maintaining the romantic thought. ... By writing, he also encouraged people to pay attention to the Edinburgh Reviewer's--an influential Whig Journal--actions of crucial criticism and strictness about expressing fe...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beginning piano study with Johann Gottfried Kuntzsch at the young age of six, Robert almost immediately started writing music; with his father's encouragement, he began composing small pieces at the age of seven. ... Eight months later he finalized his decision by writing again to his mother, "I have arrived at the conviction, that with work, patience, and a good master, I shall be able within six years to challenge any pianist."" ... Yet relief began in 1834 when Schumann founded a music journal, the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, which became one of the most important and influential mus...

• Word Count: 4114
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beginning piano study with Johann Gottfried Kuntzsch at the young age of six, Robert almost immediately started writing music; with his father's encouragement, he began composing small pieces at the age of seven. ... Eight months later he finalized his decision by writing again to his mother, "I have arrived at the conviction, that with work, patience, and a good master, I shall be able within six years to challenge any pianist."" ... Yet relief began in 1834 when Schumann founded a music journal, the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, which became one of the most important and influential mus...

• Word Count: 4114
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate