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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Some edge wear to jacket, particularly at ends of spine. Else a bright, clean copy. Cain has been ranked as one of the two best dramatic poems written in England in the nineteenth century. Because of its religious heterodoxy, which veiled a political iconoclasm, and also because of Byron's notoriety, Cain stirred up a storm among Tories and clergymen from Kentish town to Pisa. From 1821 to 1830 more was printed about its eighteen hundred alarming lines than about the twenty thousand of Don Juan. One solemn Frenchman even translated the work in order to supply his countrymen with a text that he could then rewrite and confute. After the initial controversy, readers began to regard Cain not merely as revolutionary propaganda but as a fictional portrait of common youthful experience: a sequence of aspiration, discontent, uncertainty, confusion, misunderstood isolation, fear, frustration, anger, and finally a rash, inevitable, but futile revolt that led to a future of hopeless regret. Truman Guy Steffan here presents a text, arrived at by collation of the first and several later editions with the original manuscript (presently in the Stark Collection of the Miriam Lutcher Stark Library at the Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin). The first eight essays, which comprise Part I, cover a number of literary topics: Byron's defense of his purposes in Cain and the relevance of his dramatic theory to the poem; the characterization that is an ideological confrontation, a revelation of personal conflict, as well as a rendering of individuals who have an existence independent of the author; the principles that controlled Byron's absorption and expansion of biblical materials; the integration of the imagery with the dramatic substance; the incongruities of the language; the metrical heterodoxy; and a description of the manuscript and of Byron's insertions. Part II contains the text of Cain, accompanied by notes on the variants, the manuscript cancellations and additions, certain linguistic details, and the scansion of some unusual verses. Then follow annotations on allusions, sources, and analogues, and on a few passages of the play that have elicited unusual conflict over interpretation. Part III provides a history of Cain criticism, from the opinions of Byron's social and literary circle and of the major periodicals and pamphlets to the more complicated contribution of the twentieth century. This important work stands not only as a valuable addition to Byron scholarship but also as an illuminating record of the changing critical and cultural attitudes from the early nineteenth century to the 1960s. Steffan has done a remarkable job in bringing together and synthesizing an enormous body of material.

Zustand: Good. 1957. First Edition. 569 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning.

Zustand: Good. 1957. First Edition. 397 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning.

Primera edición. XVI-397 páginas. Facsímil desplegable, fuera de texto con: primer borrador de las estrofas 92 de 97 del Canto XIV. Los dos primeros versos y el número de la estrofa 92 se escribieron en el margen inferior izquierdo, está sin numerar. el primer verso de la estrofa 97, numerado "95" por Byron; 95 está numerado "93". Encuadernado en tela editorial con letras doradas. Corte superior tintado. En buen estado. Sellos de la Biblioteca del Ins. Int. Expurgo. 23,5x16 cm.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 528 pages. 8.75x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Zustand: Gut. 2nd ed. 397, 503, 569, 406 p. Guter Zustand. 4 Bände. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Stempeln und Signatur auf Einband. Einige Seiten an den Kanten minimal geknickt, sonst Seiten sauber. / Good. 4 volumes. Ex-library with usual markings. Some pages minimally worn at edges, otherwise clean pages. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 3700.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Poor. No Jacket. This is a four volume set. Ex-library with the usual features. Hinges are split but holding. Pages are slightly darkened with age and have marks in the text. Fold-out facsimile has a 6" tear. Covers are scuffed and worn at corners. Library marks on spines. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. The 4 volume set. Will require additional postage because of weight for destinations outside of the USA.

hardcover. Zustand: good. no jacket. 1957. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 24.2x15.7cm. Each vols.: Spine somewhat faded. Edges, e.ps.and pages somewhat foxing. [I. The Making of a Masterpiece by Willis W. Pratt. (xvi,397pp.and a folding plate); II. Cantos I - V, edited by Truman Guy Steffan and Willis W. Pratt. (xxvi,503pp); III: Cantos VI - XVII, edited by Truman Guy Steffan and Willis W. Pratt. (vii,(1),569pp.); IV: Notes on the Variorum Edition by Willis W. Pratt. (vi,406pp.)] This item is heavy and needs extra shipping charge [02580-102831].