Selected Works (Oxford Authors S.)

Byron, Lord George Gordon

ISBN 10: 0192813498 / ISBN 13: 9780192813497

Edité par Oxford Paperbacks, 1986

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Selected Works (Oxford Authors S.)
• Éditeur: Oxford Paperbacks
• Date de parution: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0192813498
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780192813497
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: Good

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Synopsis

This edition presents the most comprehensive selection of Byron's poetry and prose ever collected in a single volume. The poetry section includes the complete texts of his masterpieces, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" and "Don Juan," as well as representative examples of his satires, tales, plays and short poems. Among the selected prose entries are letters, journal excerpts, essays, and other formal prose. These texts are, in every case, based on the most recent and authoritative editorial work, and incorporate many corrections to both poetry and prose. Byron offers readers the unique opportunity to appreciate the dual literary achievment of one of the romantic period's most flamboyant and most influential artists.

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