Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life

ISBN-13: 9781108047128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 682 str.

Lord George Gordon Byron;Thomas Moore

Opis

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 early life, including his time as a star of the literary scene in London, and ends with his departure from the country in 1816."