Byron's Letters and Journals
A New Selection
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 October 2017
- ISBN 9780198806448
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages560 pages
- Size 234x168x29 mm
- Weight 828 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A new and accessible edition of the letters and journals of one of Britain's most famous writers, this collection offers a biography of Byron in his own remarkable words.
MoreLong description:
Alongside Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and journals tells the story from the inside, in Byron's own racy and passionate style. Though Byron is chiefly known as a poet, his letters and journals are one of the glories of English prose literature, and one of the greatest British acts of autobiography, alongside Pepys' Diary and Boswell's Journal. This new selection, taken from the authoritative and unbowdlerized edition prepared by Leslie Marchand in the 1970s, not only provides the cream of his informal prose; it amounts to a biography in Byron's own words. No other English writer lived so remarkable an existence, from rented rooms in Aberdeen to a Nottinghamshire peerage, from European fame to English infamy, and notorious Italian exile to a glorious death in the Greek War of Independence.The letters and journals are selected, introduced, and annotated to provide a running narrative of the life and career of his remarkable man in his own unmistakable words.
... a much-needed new collection of Byron's incomparable letters and journals... Lansdown is... a generous and sensitive appreciator of Byron's literary genius The volume as a whole presents an appropriately engrossing, moving, hilarious, and sometimes heartbreaking sampler of the coruscating brilliance of one of the greater letter writers in the English language.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Note on the Text and Short Titles
A Biographical Bibliography
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth: January 1788-June 1809
The Grand Tour: June 1809-July 1811
Childe Harold and Caroline Lamb: July 1811-June 1813
The Giaour and Augusta Leigh: June 1813-July 1814
Marriage and Separation: August 1814-April 1816
Exile: April-November 1816
Venice and Rome: November 1816-June 1818
Don Juan and Teresa Guiccioli: July 1818-December 1819
Ravenna: December 1819-October 1821
Pisa: October 1821-September 1822
Genoa: October 1822-July 1823
Greece: August 1823-April 1824
Afterword
Index
