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It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution. Nowhere is the antipathy to principles and ideas so profound, nor the addiction to moderate compromise so inveterate, nor the reluctance to advance away from the past so unconquerable, as in England; and nowhere in England is there so settled an indisposition to regard any thought or sentiment except in the light of an existing social order, nor so firmly passive a hostility to generous aspirations, as in the aristocracy. Yet it was precisely an English aristocrat. | Critical Miscellanies Vol. I by John Morley 1 Critical Miscellanies Vol. I by John Morley The Project Gutenberg EBook of Critical Miscellanies Vol. I by John Morley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Critical Miscellanies Vol. I Essay 3 Byron Author John Morley Release Date March 22 2007 EBook 20879 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CRITICAL MISCELLANIES VOL. I Produced by Paul Murray Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http CRITICAL MISCELLANIES BY JOHN MORLEY Critical Miscellanies Vol. I by John Morley VOL. I. 2 ESSAY 3 BYRON London MACMILLAN AND CO. LIMITED NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1904 BYRON Byron s influence in Europe 203 In England 204 Criticism not concerned with Byron s private life 208 Function of synthetic criticism 210 Byron has the political quality of Milton and Shakespeare 212 Contrasted with Shelley in this respect 213 Peculiarity of the revolutionary view of nature 218 Revolutionary sentimentalism 220 And revolutionary commonplace in Byron 222 Byron s reasonableness 223 Size and difficulties of his subject 224 His mastery of it 224 The reflection of Danton in Byron 230 The reactionary influence upon him 232 Origin of his apparent cynicism 234 His want of positive knowledge 235 Esthetic and emotional relations to intellectual positivity 236 Significance of his dramatic predilections 240 His idea of nature less hurtful in art than in politics 241 Its influence upon his views of duty and domestic sentiment 242 His public career better than one side of his creed 245 Absence of true subjective melancholy from his nature 246 Critical Miscellanies Vol. I by John Morley His ethical poverty 249 3 Conclusion 250 BYRON. It is one of the .