Document Type

Article

Publication Title

ELH

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Publication Date

Winter 1992

Volume

59

Issue

4

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature

Abstract

Byron's late poem The Island: or, Christian and His Comrades (1823) has not proven especially congenial to modern sensibility; relatively little has been written about it, and most critics have tended to dismiss it as a regrettable episode in the Romantic idealization of the Noble Savage .

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©1992 The Johns Hopkins University Press

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