Byron in Space

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This essay considers Byron as a cosmological poet, as a writer, that is, who draws the ideas and images of astronomy into his work. The first part of the essay explores Byron’s continuation of the Miltonic tradition of cosmological poetry, primarily with reference to Cain . It discovers a double impulse. On one hand, Byron modernises Milton for a decided Copernican age and amplifies the existential threat implied by the realisation of unstructured and infinite outer space. On the other, he disrupts the narrative of scientific history by using (anachronistic) Ptolemaic imagery in order to create unique configurations of poetic thought and feeling. The second part of the essay seeks to understand these findings by placing Byron’s cosmological poetry more securely in the scientific and poetic contexts of his day.

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