Going Beyond the Lyrical: A.E. Stallings’s Engagement with Don Juan

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Gregory Dowling
Keyword(s):  
Lord Byron ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
Lost And Found ◽  
Narrative Poem ◽  
The Impact

A.E. Stallings has long shown an interest in the poetry of Lord Byron. When invited to contribute to A Modern Don Juan (edited by Andy Croft and N.S. Thompson, 2014) she accepted with alacrity; the experiment in writing ottava rima proved extremely fruitful, not only providing her with a new metrical technique but also expanding her sense of what it was possible to treat in verse. This article examines the canto she contributed to Croft and Thompson’s 2014 volume and also another narrative poem in ottava rima, ‘Lost and Found’, written around the same time. As Stallings has herself observed, her engagement with Byron and Don Juan prepared her for new ways to write about contemporary events. This article examines this development, showing the impact of Byron’s epic on her shorter poems and lyrics as well as on her longer narrative works.

Beowulf: A Study In Dilatation

PMLA ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 70 (4-Part-1) ◽  
pp. 825-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
George J. Engelhardt
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Poetry ◽  
Single Action ◽  
Narrative Poem ◽  
The Impact

When the author of Beowulf undertook to create in English a secular narrative poem of epic amplitude, he set himself to a task for which there was no precedent in the native tradition. In the Germanic past, narrative poetry had been confined to the heroic lay. This was a short poem, not exceeding some two hundred long-lines. It held to a single action, the sequence of which it presented with abrupt economy. Preoccupied with the scenic and the climactic, it had little leisure for any element which might retard the pace or attenuate the impact. To this tradition, the digressive, the repetitious, and the dilatory were alien. Only in style was the static indulged, in variation, in the ornamental and the vicarious epithet, and here only with restraint.

Lost and found tax dollars: The impact of local option sales taxes on property taxes and own source revenue

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Whitney B. Afonso
Keyword(s):  
Property Tax ◽  
Property Taxes ◽  
Policy Variable ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Lost And Found ◽  
Local Option Sales Tax ◽  
Local Option ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Primary Contribution

The relationship between the local option sales tax (LOST) and property taxes and own source revenue is not well documented in the literature. This may be due in part to the aggregated nature of the data, which fails to capture different motivations for adoption of LOSTs. Using county-level data from 35 states, this study finds that LOSTs increase own source revenue and in some circumstances decrease property tax burdens. The primary contribution of this research is that it uses a policy variable, the LOST rate, to distinguish between the two types of counties that use their LOST revenues differently. This research represents the first step in bridging the gap between the LOST literature and the tax mix choice literature.

A Pirate or Anything

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talissa J. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Lord Byron ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Failure Function ◽  
Spatial Imagination ◽  
The Military

This chapter explores pirates, and pirate colonies, as imagined by Lord Byron and William Hone. The fictional pirates of these texts, like the pirates of A General History, are deeply implicated in the power structures that historical pirates tended to operate outside of: Byron’s and Hone’s pirates are tied to the nation, to the military, to religion, and to a sense of territory more generally. Reading The Corsair and The Bride of Abydos with the perspective of Hone and Don Juan in mind, this chapter argues that depictions of this particular kind of piratical failure function as a diagnosis of the imperial forces that threaten utopian imaginations, while Don Juan proposes a kind of spatial imagination that escapes rather than reinforces imperialism.

Lord Byron: "Don Juan"

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Charles W. Hagelman ◽  
T. G. Steffan ◽  
E. Steffan ◽  
W. W. Pratt ◽  
Lord Byron
Keyword(s):  
Lord Byron ◽  
Don Juan

scholarly journals The East in the Western Perception: Orientalism in some selected Poems of Lord Byron

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Afaf Ahmed Hasan Al-Saidi
Keyword(s):  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Negative Impression ◽  
Literary Phenomenon

Orientalism as a literary phenomenon has been recently focused on by different writers all over the world. Many of those who write about Orientalism have not the same understanding, and the divergences are reproduced due to different attitudes toward Orientalism. From various studies concerning Orientalism, there are apparent tributaries confronting the understanding of the concept of Orientalism from different perspectives. Edward Said is one of those who, according to what many Western and Eastern writers say, represent the negative attitude towards Orientalism, and tries only to make it appear ugly and offensive. Many writers, Arabs and non-Arabs, take, more or less, the same approach Said used towards the subject of Orientalism. Others have, to some extent, tried to give excuses for the writers, especially the Romantics, for the negative impression their writings reflected on the readers when going through what is supposed to be Oriental works. Nigel Leask, Sari Makdisi, Emily Haddad, Martin Bright, Tripta Wahi and Naji Oueijan are the significant writers of this group. British orientalists did not use the right approach to look or write about the East. What irritates Said is that these orientalists did not pay attention to find any possibility by which they could bridge the gap between the European and Asiatic parts of the world. This paper tries to trace and to define Lord Byron’s type of Orientalism in some of his oriental works and his chief work Don Juan.

Lord Byron and Lady Byron

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Galperin
Keyword(s):  
Lord Byron ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
The World ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
History Of

An overlooked aspect of Lord Byron’s short unhappy marriage to Annabella Milbanke remains the “singular,” everyday world of relation that marriage represented for him, both beforehand, when marriage was an abstraction performed in correspondence with Milbanke, and afterwards, when the Byron marriage and the world it figured was literally a history of missed opportunities that the poet recaptured and reinscribed in Don Juan. The finite, epistolary conversation that constituted the Byron courtship was more than a trial run at marriage, particularly as the opposite of what Byron disparagingly called “love.” It proved a stay against a future that, on the relational front and in Byron’s contemporaneous Eastern Tales, was devoid of either hope or possibility. Here, in the sway of anticipatory nostalgia, marriage day after day would be suddenly fathomable and as valuable as the monetary fortune Byron also sought, but as a history of missed opportunities.

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