Byron: Passionate Romantic (Illustrated Poetry Anthology S.) - Hardcover

Byron, Lord George Gordon; Duane, O.B.

4.05

22 ratings by Goodreads

9781860193088: Byron: Passionate Romantic (Illustrated Poetry Anthology S.)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1860193080 ISBN 13: 9781860193088

Publisher: Chelsea House Publications, 1998

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

Collects twenty-seven poems and excerpts from longer works in verse by the English poet, with a biographical introduction and a chronology

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Book Description:

'Byron's letters are among the most spirited in the English language, and are irresistible. They amount to an autobiography of the duelling kind. 'V. S. Pritchett

About the Author:

Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He read English at Queen's University, Belfast, and published his first collection of poems, New Weather, in 1973. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Horse Latitudes (2006). Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. From 1999 to 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in 1996. Other recent awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, and the 2003 Griffin Prize.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.