The Prophecy of Dante: Byron and the Poet as a Prophet
This paper analyzes the connections between the Poet and the Prophet in Lord Byron's Poetics, building a critical approach to two characters: Dante, the hero of the poem The Prophecy of Dante (1821), and the trimmer-poet represented in Don Juan (1819). Our point of departure is the contrast bet...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) |
| Repository: | Ilha do Desterro |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/100284 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/100284 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Byron Poética Poeta Profeta Poetics Poet Prophet |
| Summary: | This paper analyzes the connections between the Poet and the Prophet in Lord Byron's Poetics, building a critical approach to two characters: Dante, the hero of the poem The Prophecy of Dante (1821), and the trimmer-poet represented in Don Juan (1819). Our point of departure is the contrast between Dante's prophetic image and the parodic representation of the Poet in Don Juan. We propose that, in spite of Byron's criticism of the Poet-Prophet archetype and his refusal to the authoritarian rhetorical model of the Old Testament, Byron's work creates a familiarity between poetry's language and biblical prophecy, at least in a philosophical level: the pursuit for a correspondence between words and things. |
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