Byron

Overview

In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron.Eisler reexamines his poetic achievement in the context of his extraordinary life: the shameful and traumatic childhood; the swashbuckling adventures in the East; the instant stardom achieved with the publication ofChilde Harold's Pilgrimage; his passionate and destructive love affairs, including an incestuous liaison with his half-sister; and finally his tragic death in the cause of Greek independence. This magnificent record of a towering figure is sure to become the new standard biography of Byron.

Details

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2011-01-26

Pages

880

Language

EN

Categories

Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures, Biography & Autobiography / Historical, Art / Movements / Romanticism

ISBN-13

9780307773272