Paul Elledge. Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out.(Book Review)

Publication: Studies in Romanticism

Publication Date: 22-SEP-04

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Paul Elledge. Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii. + 221. 15 b/w illus. $47.00.

Paul Elledge's Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up. Bowing Out will be a useful book for serious students of Byron. It not only provides an in-depth account of Byron's Harrow years but argues that the dramatic recitations that were part of the Harrow curriculum provided an impetus for the development of that flair for the theatrical that would characterize the career of the mature man. Elledge convincingly argues that Byron's transformation into "Byron" begins not with "the voyage and tour of 1809-11 but enrollment at Harrow School, where Byronic imagination, means, and will ally to speak out, talk back, act up" (4).

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