‘The trouble of an index,’ Index (Volume XII) (Byron's Letters and Journals) - Hardcover

Byron, George Gordon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674089545 ISBN 13: 9780674089549

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 1982

Synopsis

George Gordon Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness of his observation of people. They provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. In addition, they offer a mirror of his own time. This first collected edition of all Byron’s known letters supersedes Prothero’s incomplete edition at the turn of the century. It includes a considerable number of hitherto unpublished letters and the complete text of many that were bowdlerized by former editors for a variety of reasons. Prothero’s edition included 1,198 letters. This edition has more than 3,000, over 80 percent of them transcribed entirely from the original manuscripts.

The final volume of this splendid edition contains a comprehensive index to the contents of the preceding volumes―the several thousand letters, the journals, the notes and biographical sketches. The index is prefaced by a generous selection of Byron’s aphorisms, bons mots, and memorable statements, culled by Leslie Marchand from the letters and journals and arranged under subject headings.

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About the Author

The late Leslie A. Marchand was Professor of English, Emeritus, Rutgers University. For his lifelong work on Byron, he was given the National Book Critics Circle's Ivan Sandrof Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674089545
• ISBN 13: 9780674089549
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Marchand Leslie A.