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The Private Life of Lord Byron (Hardcover)
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The Private Life of Lord Byron (Hardcover)
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The great Romantic poet Lord Byron starved himself compulsively for
most of his life. His behaviour mystified his friends and other
witnesses, yet he never imagined he was ill. Instead, he
rationalised his behaviour as a fight for spiritual freedom and
made it the cornerstone of his heroic ideal, which was central to
his work and to his life and his death. This fresh biographical
study aims to explore neglected or misunderstood aspects of his
private life to illuminate his writing, his affairs with women, his
passion for Napoleon and his conflicted friendships with Coleridge
and Shelley. This in turn leads to a new understanding of his
masterpiece, Don Juan. 15 July 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of
its first publication. Antony Peattie situates these patterns of
behaviour in a vividly rendered contemporary world, culminating in
Byron's last days in Greece, where he tried to starve himself into
heroic leadership but damaged his constitution, resulting in his
death at the age of thirty-six.
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