Lord Byron - Couverture rigide

Muldoon, Paul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0571274269 ISBN 13 : 9780571274260

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2011

Synopsis

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature. She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies - `She Walks in Beauty`.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

None can know what was lost when Byron's autobiography was reduced to ashes in John Murray's Albermarle Street fireplace, but some clue must lie in this distillation of the wealth of letters and journals of the poet branded 'mad, bad, and dangerous to know'. Here is proof that none portrays Byron so vividly as he portrays himself. He gives us a chronicle of the heady years of fame and of the scandals that drove him so bitterly from England, first to Switzerland with Shelley, on to Venice 'so late into the night' and finally to Greece 'in Freedom's battle' and death in Mossolonghi. 'What a feast of a life actually in the process of being lived these letters have provided. They breathe the very spirit of the man, and they bring Byron and his circle of friends before our eyes as no biography has ever done or can ever hope to do' Robert Nye. Guardian

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0571274269
• ISBN 13: 9780571274260
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144