Buch, Englisch, 1214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 2404 g
With Notices of His Life
Buch, Englisch, 1214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 2404 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
ISBN: 978-1-108-04714-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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 life to 1816, and Volume 2 continues the narrative up to his early death in Greece in 1824.
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Volume 1: Preface; Notices of the life of Lord Byron, 1788–1816; Letters I–CCXLI. Volume 2: Notices of the life of Lord Byron, 1816–1824; Letters CCXLII–DLXI; Appendix.
