Selected Poems (Thrift Editions)

Lord George Gordon Byron

ISBN 10: 0486277844 / ISBN 13: 9780486277844

Edité par Dover Publications Inc., United States, New York, 2000

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The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Selected Poems (Thrift Editions)
• Éditeur: Dover Publications Inc., United States, New York
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0486277844
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780486277844
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

Byron's free-spirited lifestyle combined with his rare poetic gift to make him one of the foremost figures of the Romantic Era. This collection of his poems, richly varied in mood and content, captures the essence of his great achievement. Among the thirty-one poems included are convivial song-like poems, love poems, travel poems, humorous and satiric poems.
Shorter works such as the famous "She Walks in Beauty," "Stanzas to Augusta" and "So We'll Go No More a Roving" are well represented. Also here are important longer works -- "The Prisoner of Chillon," "Beppo," "The Vision of Judgment," all unabridged -- and lyrics excerpted from Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the play Manfred. Taken together, these are poems that draw readers quickly into the passions, humors, and convictions of a poet whose life and work truly embodied the Romantic spirit.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Byron's poetry took Europe by storm in the early nineteenth century and the poems which made him a star are here represented by a selection of the early lyrics, including still popular pieces such as 'She walks in beauty' and 'We'll go a no more a-roving'. But Byron's real talent was for comedy. He is the greatest comic poet of the Romantic movement and his comic verse is here represented by BEPPO, A VISION OF JUDGEMENT and selections from his greatest masterpiece, DON JUAN, which satirizes the very reputation for amourous adventures which helped to make Byron himself famous. (1994-03-24)