COMPARISON OF NEO-CLASSICM AUTHORS VS ROMANTIC PERIOD

Comparison of Neo-classical authors vs. romantic period

Neoclassical vs. romantic

Neoclassical writer Lord Byron

Byron's verse was exceedingly well liked throughout his lifetime, whereas some reviewers considered both his individual life and his composing as immoral. He was almost disregarded by detractors in the second half of the nineteenth 100 years, and throughout the first half of the twentieth 100 years, he was often graded as a secondary Romantic poet. Since then, although, his verse has contacted with expanding critical interest—in specific for its paid work of satire and verbal digression, for its production of the one-by-one versus humanity, and for its remedy of guilt and innocence. Finally, Byron's location inside the Romantic action and his liability to the eighteenth-century neoclassical writers before him are a source of ongoing understanding and reassessment. (Beer p.12)

The force of Lord Byron's personality is, for many, what draws them to his poetical works, more so than the philosophy or the literary strength of the works themselves. Byron was the major voice of Europe in his time. He embodied the Romantic Movement in literature, his fervent liberalism spawned the dominant political movements of the nineteenth century, and his flamboyancy made him the most appealing man of his day. Nowhere is this flamboyance more evident than in the more than three-thousand letters written throughout his lifetime. Not only does one obtain a vivid glimpse into the daily events that shaped Byron's life and work, but one also is provided with a vast body of prose that may well outshine his poetry for literary merit. (Beer p.12)

Byron's popularity has not always corresponded to his critical appraisal. He stands apart from his fellow Romantic poets—William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats—in his stubborn reverence for the poetic style of Restoration and ...