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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797065603321

Autore

Byron George Gordon Byron, Baron, <1788-1824, >

Titolo

Byron's letters and journals : a new selection / / edited by Richard Lansdown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-104477-6

1-336-09570-9

0-19-104476-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (551 p.)

Disciplina

821.7

Soggetti

Poets, English - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"From Leslie A. Marchand's twelve-volume edition."

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Childhood, Boyhood, Youth: January 1788-June 1809 -- 2. The Grand Tour: June 1809-July 1811 -- 3. Childe Harold and Caroline Lamb: July 1811-June 1813 -- 4. The Giaour and Augusta Leigh: June 1813-July 1814 -- 5. Marriage and Separation: August 1814-April 1816 -- 6. Exile: April-November 1816 -- 7. Venice and Rome: November 1816-June 1818 -- 8. Don Juan and Teresa Guiccioli: July 1818-December 1819 -- 9. Ravenna: December 1819-October 1821 -- 10. Pisa: October 1821-September 1822 -- 11. Genoa: October 1822-July 1823 -- 12. Greece: August 1823-April 1824.

Sommario/riassunto

Alongside Jane Austen, the Brontèˆ sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and journals tells the story from the inside, in Byron's own racy and passionate style. Though Byron is chiefly known as a poet, his letters and journals are one of the glories of English prose literature,and one of the greatest British acts of autobiography, alongside Pepys' Diary and Boswell's Journal. This new selection, taken from the