1. Introduction (by Paola Enguix)
After
having developed the analysis of Byronism in our previous papers about
Byronism: Influences, Characteristics & Importance, in this paper we are
going to analyze deeper the influences of Byronism in the posterior poetic
stages until World War II. We will base our division on the English poetry
timeline proposed by the Wikipedia in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_poetry.
We are going to talk about the reception of
Byron by the community of young Victorian writers in the period, aiming to
re-cast critical assumptions of the audience Byron was writing for, while
exposing the culture industry which created and fostered the myth of Byron.
Also about the Pre-Raphaelites, whose poetry shares many of the concerns of the
painters; an interest in Medieval models, an almost obsessive attention to
visual detail and an occasional tendency to lapse into whimsy.
Later we are going to analyze Byron’s
influence in the 20th century, talking about the Georgian poets, one
of the major grouping of the post-Victorian era before and after the First
World War, whose poetry developed a reaction to the decadence of the 1890s and
tended towards the sentimentalism, though they splited into socially-aware
writers against the war, and the ones that remained technically conservative
and traditionalist, and some joining the Modernist influences.
Also about
those poets who began to emerge in the 1930s, born too late to have any real
experience of the period before the First World War and that grew up in a
period of social, economic and political turmoil, developing themes of
community, social injustice and war.
Finally, we
will talk about the 1940s new generation of war poets, which owed something to
the 1930s poets, but whose work grew out of the particular circumstances in
which they found themselves living and fighting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_poetry
The later writers did not much opposition to
Byron’s earlier influences on them. Furthermore, they drank from them,
absorving each drop of knowledge, fascinated by the rare way Byron depicted
reality, taking the issues of subjectivity, sexuality and canonicity. They
ended defining themselves through fictions of personal development away from
values associated with Byron.
http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1996/v/n3/005720ar.html
Byron was not just an author but an
unprecedent cultural phenomenon. He has not only affected the point of view of
the writers in different places and decades, but also the novel, poetry and
drama, as a branch of his poetic inheritance.
http://assets.cambridge.org/97805214/54520/excerpt/9780521454520_excerpt.pdf
Byron created a sequel to his work without
noticing, and the later generations owe him that much. And this legacy and
influence is what we will analyze in this paper.
2. Influence of Byronism until World War II
2.1. Byron’s influence on
Victorian writer Charlotte Bronte (by Mª José Jorquera)
2.2. The 20th Century
2.2.1.
The first decades of the 20th Century
(by Josué Álvarez)
2.2.2.
The Thirties (by Manuela Elisa Blanes
& Julia Fernández)
2.2.3. The Forties (by Jéssica Aguilar & Cristina Camps)
3. Conclusion (by Aina García & Mª Llanos García)