The Cambridge introduction to Byron / Richard Lansdown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lansdown, Richard, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Criticism and interpretation.

Byron, George Gordon Byron.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xvii, 172 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Summary:

"Author of the most influential long poem of its era (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) and the funniest long poem in European literature (Don Juan), Lord Byron was also the literary superstar of Romanticism, whose effect on nineteenth-century writers, artists, musicians and politicians - but also everyday readers - was second to none. His poems seduced and scandalized readers, and his life and legend were correspondingly magnetic, given added force by his early death in the Greek War of Independence. This introduction compresses his extraordinary life to manageable proportions and gives readers a firm set of contexts in the politics, warfare, and Romantic ideology of Byron's era. It offers a guide to the main themes in his wide-ranging oeuvre, from the early poems that made him famous (and infamous) overnight, to his narrative tales, dramas and the comic epic left incomplete at his death"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Life; 2. Context; 3. The letters and journals; 4. The Poet as pilgrim; 5. The Orient and the outcast; 6. Four philosophical tales; 7. Histories and mysteries; 8. Don Juan; 9. Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521111331

0521111331

9780521128735

0521128730

OCLC:

772525952

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