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At a time when the Romantic movement was sweeping the European continent in the early 19th century, among musicians, writers and playwrights, perhaps nobody embodied and personified the Romantic movement quite like Lord Byron, the famous English poet whose life and works are both the stuff of legend.
In addition to being celebrated for poems like She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, Byron was also notorious for living in excess, racking up debts and liaisons at increasingly reckless speeds. Despite his fame and abilities, he eventually exiled himself, ultimately traveling to fight in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Turks. Lord Byron would fall ill and die during the war at the young age of 36, but the Greeks consider him a national hero, and people have been reading his material and talking about his life ever since.
In addition to being celebrated for poems like She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, Byron was also notorious for living in excess, racking up debts and liaisons at increasingly reckless speeds. Despite his fame and abilities, he eventually exiled himself, ultimately traveling to fight in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Turks. Lord Byron would fall ill and die during the war at the young age of 36, but the Greeks consider him a national hero, and people have been reading his material and talking about his life ever since.
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Review:
'I woke up one morning and found myself famous',Byron recalled after the publication in 1812 of the first two cantos of his versified travelogue, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, fruit of a two-year grand tour. Until then he had been despised as a dissolute show-off; suddenly he was the toast of literary society. Byron's remarkable portrait of Spain, Albania and Greece as they were during the Napoleonic wars is laced with tips on seduction ( Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare ), political satire and rapture about literature, landscape, architecture and dashing national attire. The poem was completed in 1818, extended with reflections on Waterloo and a melancholic elegy on Italy's decline. Written to be listened to in Regency drawing rooms to the flutter of fans and cocked lorgnettes, there is no better way of experiencing it than Jamie Parker's beautifully judged performance. --- Christina Hardyment, The Times
Book Description:
Originally published in 1913, this book presents the complete text of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a long narrative poem in four parts. The text also contains extensive critical notes and an editorial introduction, supplying commentary upon historical, literary and topographical allusions within the poem.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1519552750
- ISBN 13 9781519552754
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages138
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