A revealing collection of Byron's private letters and vivid excerpts from his journals provide a memorable self-portrait of the nineteenth-century English poet
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode.
Poet, celebrity, and revolutionary, Lord (George Gordon) Byron was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the first half of the nineteenth century, his distinctive, deeply felt work comprising one of the enduring high ...
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, and one of its most notorious characters.
This volume comprises the complete poetic works of Byron. As well as including such works as "Childe Harold", "Don Juan", "The Two Foscari", "The Lament of Tasso" and "The Vision of Judgement", it also contains his shorter lyrical poems.
Visiting the seaside with her recently widowed brother, Jane is called upon to investigate the scandalous death of a reluctantly engaged young woman who was discovered in the bed of an infamous rake.
86,8 As Philip's son proposed to do with Athos The son of Philip ( 382–336 BC ) , King of Macedon , was Alexander the Great . ' A sculptor projected to hew Mount Athos ( a mountain over a mile high in north - east Greece ) into a statue ...
Published in Paris in 1825 despite British legal wrangling, this book contains personal letters by Byron and Dallas' biographical 'Recollections'.
To the nineteenth-century reader, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was the archetype of the Romantic literary hero, a figure admired and emulated as much for the revolutionary panache with which he lived his life as the brio and ...
«Emplissons jusqu'au bord la coupe des plaisirs : enivrons-nous de sa liqueur, notre nectar.» George Gordon Byron, sixième baron Byron, plus connu sous le nom de «Lord Byron» (1788-1824), reste...
This volume brings together for the first time all of Byron's miscellaneous prose writings, including his speeches in the House of Lords, short stories, reviews, critical articles, and Armenian translations, as well as such shorter pieces ...