Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Volume Set: With Notices of his Life

by George Gordon Byron

2020-12-30 07:36:23

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788-1824) is one of the central writers of British Romanticism and his ''Byronic'' hero - the charming, dashing, rebellious outsider - remains a literary archetype. But to what extent is this ch... Read more
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788-1824) is one of the central writers of British Romanticism and his ''Byronic'' hero - the charming, dashing, rebellious outsider - remains a literary archetype. But to what extent is this character a portrayal of the author himself? Byron was known for his extremely unconventional, eccentric character and his extravagant and flamboyant lifestyle: he had numerous scandalous love affairs, including a suspiciously close relationship with his half-sister Augusta Leigh. Lady Caroline Lamb, one of his lovers, famously described him as ''mad, bad and dangerous to know''. This two-volume work, compiled by his friend Thomas Moore, to whom Byron had given his manuscript memoirs (which he later burnt), was published in 1830. Volume 1 gives an account of Byron''s life to 1816, and Volume 2 continues the narrative up to his early death in Greece in 1824. Less

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File size9.61 X 6.65 X 3.11 in
Print pages1214
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date March 28, 2012
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781108047142

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