ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores double theme through three parts: the first examines the implications of reading and writing as themselves political acts; the second interrogates the politics inherent; and third follows the trajectory of Byron's political engagement from his abortive early career in the British House of Lords. It talks about the possibilities of interaction between what Byron himself called words and things. The life of Byron is of no political significance provides a starting point for argument for many contributors. In terms of Byrons work, Andrew Stauffer agrees with Kelsall that Byron was not much interested in the day-to-day business of politics; his vision habitually moved to the long retrospective view of present action. It ends with Peter Grahams discussion of Byron and George Orwell as examples of the rebel who boldly flouts the strictures of his class, place and time.
