Scrawled Shortcuts through the Research Maze
Scrawled Shortcuts through the Research Maze
The Byron Society Library is coming to Drew---Who was this 19th c. superstar?
A literary take on Byron’s “villainous heroes, satiric barbs, brooding and sometimes gloomy verse, seductive good looks, and the rakish behavior that for decades after his death made him anathema . . .”
Online, under Research Resources, English
Search “Byron, George Gordon” or “Lord Byron” to acquaint yourself with Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism of Byron--- and Byron’s own criticism, like the deliciously snarky “Letter to the Editor of 'My Grandmother's Review.’”
Online, under Research Resources.
Part of Byron’s romance was his romantic imbroglios. Read up on the scandals of Byron’s life and then check out his Byronic Hero-- “an energetic spirit, a rebellious individualism, and a vast capacity for feeling and suffering.”
REF 941.073 E56e
Investigate Lady Caroline Lamb, who caricatured Byron in Glenarvon. The index (under “Byron”) yields further gems, such as “attacked Castlereagh; attacked Elgin; encouraged Coleridge to publish; satirized Lake Poets…”
REF 941.07 B862b
For literary-biographical scandalmongering on Byron, see vol. IV, p. 171-194.
REF 820.9 B862b
Who said, “There is no believing a word they say . . .there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends” ? Search the “Quotations” to find out.
Online, under Research Resources.
Byron’s daughter, Augusta Ada, Lady Lovelace, became a mathematician and wrote the first computer program, for the Babbage Engine, though she went on to follow in her father’s footsteps of family scandal.
REF 510.922 N899n