Collects twenty-seven poems and excerpts from longer works in verse by the English poet, with a biographical introduction and a chronology
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About the Author:
George Gordon was born in London in 1788, of Scottish, French and English extraction. He succeeded to a baronetcy in 1798, and as Lord Byron he was soon to become the most famous poet of his age - with the publication of Childe Harold, in 1812 - as well as one of its most notorious characters, His career spanned a momentous period in European history, in which Byron himself was deeply involved. He left England in 1816, and died in Missolonghi in Greece (where he had gone to join the forces struggling for Greek independence) in 1824.
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- PublisherBrockhampton Pr
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1860193080
- ISBN 13 9781860193088
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages96
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