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

• Autore: Byron George Gordon Byron, Baron, <1788-1824, >
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (551 p.)
• Disciplina: 821.7
• Soggetto topico: Poets, English - 19th century
• Persona (resp. second.): LansdownRichard
• 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 Brontë 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Byron's letters and journals
• ISBN: 0-19-104477-6; 1-336-09570-9; 0-19-104476-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797065603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II