Books by Alan Rawes

Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom takes the work of the greatest living literary critic and discovers what it is like to read 'with', 'against' and 'beyond' his work. -- .

A study of the evolution of Byron's poetry from "Childe Harold I" and "II" through to the composition of "Beppo". Alan Rawes also offers a substantial reconsideration of Byron's shifting attitude towards Wordsworthian idealism and a detailed analysis of the structured eclectism of Manfred.