ABSTRACT
This section provides a brief history of Byron criticism from the nineteenth century to the present day, divided into sub-sections entitled: ‘Byron's Contemporaries’; ‘The Victorians’; and ‘The Twentieth Century’ and ‘Contemporary Criticism’. The main preoccupations and disagreements between critics will be indicated. The last section will be further sub-divided into those critical approaches that have been particularly relevant to contemporary interest in Byron and have produced the most illuminating studies of the poetry: Post-structuralism, Psychoanalytical Approaches, New Historicism, Post-colonialism, Gender, and Genre and Literary Form.
