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- Title: Byron's Don Juan As a Global Allegory (Lord Byron)
- Author : Studies in Romanticism
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 241 KB
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THE DEDICATION IS ONE OF THE MOST CITED PASSAGES IN DON JUAN, YET literary critics have not fully explored its implications for the nature of Byron's social satire. It is used as evidence for Byron's disagreement with a poet like Wordsworth over aesthetic issues, or for a contrast between Byron's republican ideals and Wordsworth's growing conservatism. The Dedication, then, is treated as literary and political criticism, but what is overlooked is its specifically economic content. For Byron, Robert Southey and Wordsworth are "sellouts" in the first sense--they have compromised themselves for money: Byron then departs from this critique of poets to make a larger attack upon British foreign policy, upon the '"intellectual eunuch Castlereagh" and the Holy Alliance, the "Conspiracy or congress to be made-- / Cobbling at manacles for all mankind-- / A tinkering slavemaker, who mends old chains, / With God and man's abhorrence for its gains" (14). There is a movement from the micro-level of individual behavior, to the national level, to the international level--from Wordsworth's gold to Castlereagh's gains--and to explore this movement is to see the nature of Byron's critique of globalizing capitalism.