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La visión del juicio. Poemas de amor

La visión del juicio (1821), considerada “la mejor obra de lord Byron, con permiso de Don Juan”, arranca con la parodia de un poema de Robert Southey donde el poeta narraba, con gran cursileria, el ascenso a los cielos del rey Jorge III. Pero una vez dispuesto el teatrillo paródico a Byron se le dispararon los poderes visionarios de manera que además de calcinar la reputación de Southey examinó la tramoya del poder, de la moral, del arte y de la ambición de su tiempo.
Completa el volumen una selección significativa de su lírica breve, donde recuperamos al Byron más romántico.
123 printed pages
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
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  • Alexis Hernández Núñezhas quoted7 months ago
    In the first year of freedom’s second dawn

    Died George the Third; although no tyrant, one

    Who shielded tyrants, till each sense withdrawn

    Left him nor mental nor external sun:

    A better farmer ne’er brush’d dew from lawn,

    A worse king never left a realm undone!

    He died — but left his subjects still behind,

    One half as mad — and t’other no less blind.
  • Alexis Hernández Núñezhas quoted7 months ago
    This by the way: ‘tis not mine to record

    What angels shrink from: even the very devil

    On this occasion his own work abhorr’d,

    So surfeited with the infernal revel:

    Though he himself had sharpen’d every sword,

    It almost quench’d his innate thirst of evil.

    (Here Satan’s sole good work deserves insertion —

    ‘Tis, that he has both generals in reveration.)
  • Alexis Hernández Núñezhas quoted7 months ago
    The angels all were singing out of tune,

    And hoarse with having little else to do,

    Excepting to wind up the sun and moon,

    Or curb a runaway young star or two,

    Or wild colt of a comet, which too soon

    Broke out of bounds o’er th’ ethereal blue,

    Splitting some planet with its playful tail,

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