Byron in Love
Author(s): Edna O'Brien
Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his gigantic flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him from the particular to the universal. Everything about Lord George Gordon Byron was a paradox - insider and outsider, beautiful and deformed, serious and facetious, profligate but on occasion miserly, and possessed of a fierce intelligence trapped forever in a child's magic and malices. He was also a great poet, but as he reminded us, poetry is a distinct faculty and has little to do with the individual life of its creator. Edna O'Brien's exemplary biography focuses upon the diverse and colourful women in Byron's life.
General Information
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- : 104129
- : 104129
- : 0.246
- : 21 January 2010
- : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Edna O'Brien
- : 1
- : 248
- : Illustrations (some col.), ports. (some col.)