Monday, April 10, 2006

More on Lord Byron

Thanks for the link to Byron's "Manfred," Katie. In this SF Site interview, Susanna Clarke talks about the serendipity of stumbling across "Manfred" while researching the period.

Some readers of Clarke's novel (mostly English majors) see the difference of opinion between Strange and Norrell as akin to the difference of opinion between the 19th-century Romantic writers and their 18th-century counterparts -- Byron vs. Pope, if you will.

Katie, have you read Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land by John Crowley?