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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464569103321

Autore

Cochran Peter <1944->

Titolo

Byron and Hobby-O [[electronic resource] ] : Lord Byron's relationship with John Cam Hobhouse / / by Peter Cochran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010

ISBN

1-282-62417-2

9786612624179

1-4438-2205-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Disciplina

821.7

Soggetti

Poets, English - 19th century

Politicians - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; EDITORIAL; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; APPENDIX I; APPENDIX II; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Byron and Hobby-O is about the relationship between Byron and his supposed best friend, John Cam Hobhouse. It is the first full-length biographical study of Hobhouse in over fifty years, and is much franker and more intimate than anything preceding. It shows how, while the two men were initially collaborators and rivals, Byron rapidly outstretched Hobhouse in poetry, while Hobhouse, in the longer term, outstretched Byron in politics. It shows how long acquaintance Other the elusive and chame...