Book contents
- Byron in Context
- Byron in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Political, Social and Intellectual Transformations
- Part III Literary Cultures
- Part IV Reception and Afterlives
- Chapter 31 Contemporary Critical Reception to 1824
- Chapter 32 Byron, Radicals and Reformers
- Chapter 33 European Reception
- Chapter 34 Recollections, Conversations and Biographies
- Chapter 35 Posthumous Reception and Reinvention to 1900
- Chapter 36 Popular Culture
- Chapter 37 Byron Now
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 32 - Byron, Radicals and Reformers
from Part IV - Reception and Afterlives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 October 2019
- Byron in Context
- Byron in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Political, Social and Intellectual Transformations
- Part III Literary Cultures
- Part IV Reception and Afterlives
- Chapter 31 Contemporary Critical Reception to 1824
- Chapter 32 Byron, Radicals and Reformers
- Chapter 33 European Reception
- Chapter 34 Recollections, Conversations and Biographies
- Chapter 35 Posthumous Reception and Reinvention to 1900
- Chapter 36 Popular Culture
- Chapter 37 Byron Now
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
“He was a lover of liberty,” observed Mary Howitt when Byron’s funeral procession reached Nottingham, “which the Radical Corporation here thought made him their brother; therefore all the rabble rout from every lane and alley, and garret and cellar, came forth to curse and swear, and shout and push, in his honour.” Both during his life and after, Byron was venerated as the patron saint of radicalism. He was toasted at clandestine Tom Paine dinners in the 1820s. Incendiary works such as Cain (1821), The Vision of Judgment (1822) and Don Juan (1819) were pirated in cheap editions. His name decorated the walls of Chartist public houses alongside those of Paine, Jefferson and Washington, while selections of his verse emblazoned banners at demonstrations across the manufacturing districts of northern England.
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- Byron in Context , pp. 265 - 272Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019