Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as
rebel; imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or
frontier, his notorious flaws redeemed by a magnetism and
ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him
from the particular to the universal. Everything about Lord George
Gordon Byron was a paradox - insider and outsider, beautiful and
deformed, serious and facetious, profligate but on occasion
miserly, and possessed of a fierce intelligence trapped forever in
a child's magic and malices. He was also a great poet, but as he
reminded us, poetry is a distinct faculty and has little to do with
the individual life of its creator. Edna O'Brien's exemplary
biography focuses upon the diverse and colourful women in Byron's
life. 'O'Brien charts the many loves of the notorious 19th-century
poet's reckless life in immediate and candid prose' Sunday
Telegraph 'Edna O'Brien has always had a gift for writing about
affairs of the heart' Guardian 'There is much to enjoy in this
idiosyncratic and highly readable account of the poet whose writing
enthralled and whose actions appalled in equal measure' Independent
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