Byron

¸±±êÌâ: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame

ISBN: 9780679740858

³ö°æÉç: Vintage

³ö°æÄê: 2000-05-09

Ò³Êý: 880

¶¨¼Û: USD 18.00

×°Ö¡: Paperback

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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.