This essay explores the interaction between Byron and the spirit of the age,how Byron reflects or resists the spirit of the age and eventually transcends the tone of the time.It develops its ideas through three important spots of time represented by William Hazlitt,Virginia Woolf and Jerome McGann respectively.Part Ⅰ negotiates with Hazlitt's argument that Byron"panders to the spirit of the age"and maintains instead that Byron never succumbs to the abstraction tendency or the principle of legitimacy.Part Ⅱ moves on to Woolf's discussion about Byron and the common reader in order to present a more poetic reading practice beyond theory.Part Ⅲ is a dialogue with McGann and demonstrates the significance of Byron's poetics in our times to break away with systems and emancipate language.The essay mainly focuses on Canto Ⅳ of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
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