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"I am more fit to die than people think": Byron on immortality.(Lord George Gordon Byron)(Critical essay)
From: Christianity and Literature
Date: 20060322
Author:Stevens, Harold Ray
"What is Poetry?--The Feeling of a Former world and a Future."
Byron, Ravenna Journal
Elizabeth Longford affirms a commonly accepted view that Byron "mocked the idea of Christian immortality" by citing one of his best-known letters on the subject: "And our carcases, which are to rise again, are they worth raising? I hope, if mine is, that I shall have a better pair of legs than I have moved on these two-and-twenty years, or I shall be sadly behind in the squeeze into paradise" (44). (1) That Calvinism shaped Byron's thoughts about the afterlife is as well-known and ...
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