Essential Byron

George Gordon 1788- Byron

ISBN 10: 0880011815 / ISBN 13: 9780880011815

Published by Ecco Press July 1999, 1999

About this Item

Age toning, corners rubbed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Essential Byron
• Publisher: Ecco Press July 1999
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0880011815
• ISBN 13: 9780880011815
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Byron's mature style is wonderfully discursive, ranging from Aristotle through hitting the sack to hitting the bottle sack, while relishing the rhyme on "Aristotle" and "bottle" along he way; he reminds us again and again that poetry can be serious without being solemn, that it might even be fun.

About the Author

Lord Byron was an English poet and the most infamous of the English Romantics, glorified for his immoderate ways in both love and money. Benefitting from a privileged upbringing, Byron published the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage upon his return from his Grand Tour in 1811, and the poem was received with such acclaim that he became the focus of a public mania. Following the dissolution of his short-lived marriage in 1816, Byron left England amid rumours of infidelity, sodomy, and incest.

In self-imposed exile in Italy Byron completed Childe Harold and Don Juan. He also took a great interest in Armenian culture, writing of the oppression of the Armenian people under Ottoman rule; and in 1823, he aided Greece in its quest for independence from Turkey by fitting out the Greek navy at his own expense.

Two centuries of references to, and depictions of Byron in literature, music, and film began even before his death in 1824.