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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron

Letters and Journals of Lord Byron

Letters and Journals of Lord Byron

With Notices of his Life
Volume 2:
George Gordon Byron
Thomas Moore
March 2012
2
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9781108047135
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    George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788–1824) is one of the central writers of British Romanticism and his 'Byronic' hero - the charming, dashing, rebellious outsider - remains a literary archetype. But to what extent is this character a portrayal of the author himself? Byron was known for his extremely unconventional, eccentric character and his extravagant and flamboyant lifestyle: Lady Caroline Lamb, one of his lovers, famously described him as 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'. This two-volume work, compiled by his friend Thomas Moore, to whom Byron had given his manuscript memoirs (which he later burnt), was published in 1830. Volume 2 gives an account of Byron's life and work from 1816, including his travels abroad in Switzerland and Italy, where close friendships with Lady Blessington and Percy and Mary Shelley developed, to his early death in the Greek War of Independence in 1824.

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    March 2012
    Paperback
    9781108047135
    836 pages
    244 × 42 × 170 mm
    1.3kg
    1 b/w illus.
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Notices of the life of Lord Byron, 1816–24
    • Letters CCXLII–DLXI
    • Appendix.
      Author
    • George Gordon Byron
    • Editor
    • Thomas Moore