Life Lessons from Byron (Paperback)

Matthew Bevis

ISBN 10: 1447245741 / ISBN 13: 9781447245742

Published by Pan Macmillan, London, 2013

About this Item

Paperback. Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Born in 1798, he was celebrated as much for his scandalous private life as for his enduring poetry. A prolific writer, he is famous for his long narrative poetical works and remains one of the most influential contributors to literature. Here you will find extracts from his greatest works. The Life Lessons series from The School of Life takes a great thinker and highlights those ideas most relevant to ordinary everyday dilemmas. These books emphasise ways in which wise voices from the past have urgently important and inspiring things to tell us. This book is introduced and edited by Matthew Bevis, lecturer and English fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and the author of The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Tennyson, Joyce. Essential life lessons from Byron, one of life's Great Thinkers This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life Lessons from Byron (Paperback)
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan, London
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447245741
• ISBN 13: 9781447245742
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

'The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Born in 1788, Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure of the Romantic movement. A prodigious poetic gift and a scandalous private life made him famous throughout Europe, and his masterpiece, Don Juan, became the biggest-selling work of the period. He remains one of the most provocative, seductive voices of world literature. The Life Lessons series from The School of Life takes a great thinker and highlights those ideas most relevant to ordinary, everyday dilemmas. These books emphasize ways in which wise voices from the past have urgently important and inspiring things to tell us. 'thoroughly welcoming and approachable ... [Life Lessons from Byron is] a ringing affirmation of the power of poetry to reach down tot the essence, or at least the essences, of life ... If the six books in the Life Lessons series can teach even a few readers to pay passionate heed to the world - to notice things - they will have been an unquestionable success' John Banville, Prospect 'there is a good deal to be learned from these little primers' Observer

About the Author

Dr Matthew Bevis is Lecturer and Fellow in English at Keble College, Oxford. He is the author of The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce, and of Comedy: A Very Short Introduction.