Description
Book SynopsisEver since his childhood and adolescence and before he became a legendary poet, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron, felt the sense of escaping from the anxieties of his traumatic present to the glorious worlds of Eastern history and mythology. In Eastern mythology, which he read and loved, Byron approached his own utopia and dystopia without distancing himself from current world affairs. He heard the voice of mythology in various forms: in Nature and its animate and inanimate elements, in nightingales, eagles, roses, trees, bushes, mountains, plains, oceans, stones, and rocks, and in ancient relics, among others. Nature and the ruins of the past spoke to him more truth about God, Man, and Nature than religion and history books. His immediate impressions while being on-the-spot, his mobility, his standing on the borderlines of fact and fiction, and his extensive references to Eastern mythology in his works, created a Byronic myth and enhanced the mythical quality of his works, esp
Table of Contents
Peter Graham: Foreword – Acknowledgements – List of Abbreviations – Introduction – Mythology Ancient and Modern – Formation of the Byron Myth – Romanticism and Myth-Making – Lord Byron’s Mobility and Myth-Making – Lord Byron’s Mapping of Eastern Mythology – Greek Mythology – Persian and Arabian Mythology – Nature and Mythology: The Politics of Man and Nature – Antiquity and Mythology – Eroticism and Mythology – Madness and Mythology – The Mythical Voice – Conclusion – References – Index.
