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
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 ...
366 Philip's son: Alexander the Great. 368 Diogenes: founder of the Cynic school, he espoused an austere 'natural'life. 644 Lake Leman:Lake Geneva. 848 Cytherea: Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love; her girdle gave the wearer the power ...
Byron is situated between Milton, whose suffering Satan retained more than a hint of nobility even though God's ways were supposedly justified, and Nietzsche's ubermench who in suffering the laughter of rejection and the pain of alienated ...
«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...
Provides a biography of the English poet Lord Byron along with critical views of his works.
Lord Byron: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
All of the Works have been newly typeset for this edition. The basis of the texts is Ernest Hartley Coleridge's edition of the poetry and Rowland E. Prothero's edition of the prose (as published uniformly, London: John Murray, 1898).
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.
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The most European of the English writers in an age of revolution, Byron was deeply involved in contemporary events and his work was largely directed against what he called the...
All of the Works have been newly typeset for this edition. The basis of the texts is Ernest Hartley Coleridge's edition of the poetry and Rowland E. Prothero's edition of the prose (as published uniformly, London: John Murray, 1898).