Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life - Hardcover

O`brien, Edna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393070115 ISBN 13: 9780393070118

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009

Synopsis

Acclaimed biographer of James Joyce Edna O Brien has written an intimate biography that suits her fiery and charismatic subject. She follows Byron from the dissipations of Regency London to the wilds of Albania and the Socratic pleasures of Greece and Turkey, culminating in his meteoric rise to fame at the age of twenty-four on the publication of Childe Harold. With her prismatic eye and novelistic style, O Brien eerily captures the spirit of the man and creates an indelible portrait of Byron that explodes the Romantic myth. From his escapades with John Edleston, the fourteen-year-old Cambridge choir boy, to those with a galaxy of women that included his half-sister, his wife of one year, and the Italian countess who forsook her satyr-like husband for the peer of England and its greatest poet, Byron scandalized the world and inspires Byronmania to this day. Byron, as brilliantly rendered by O Brien, is the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, and defiantly immortal."

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Review:

Lord Byron was both the fallen angel and ultimate rock star, unmatchable by any who have come after. Edna O'Brien catches the audacious wickedness of Regency England and high-Romantic Italy in the days of Byron and his best friend, Shelley. The full range of Byron's polymorphous perversity is gloriously on display in this remorseless tale of a very great poet. --Harold Bloom, author of "The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages"

Book Description:

'Byron in Love' - the nobility, arrogance, and sheer theatre of Byron's life.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0393070115
• ISBN 13: 9780393070118
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240