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Byron - Life and legend (Hardcover)
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Byron - Life and legend (Hardcover)
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This biography of Byron (by Byron's own publisher John Murray)
attempts to reinterpret Byron's life and poetry for a new
generation.;Fiona MacCarthy has had access to the full John Murray
Byron archive, by far the largest in the world. In addition to this
resource of correspondence, literary manuscripts and artefacts
(many previously unseen by Byron scholars), she has drawn fully on
other major collections and has travelled extensively in the Europe
that Byron knew, believing strongly in the resonance of place.;She
aims to bring a fresh eye to Byron's childhood in Scotland, his
embattled relations with his mother and the effect on him of his
deformed foot. MacCarthy traces his early travels in the
Mediterranean and the East, using fresh material to throw light on
his series of relationships with adolescent boys - a hidden subject
in earlier biographies.;Perceptive on the compelling tragi-comedy
of Byron's separation, his incestuous love for his half-sister
Augusta and the clamorous attentions of his female fans, Fiona
MacCarthy gives a new importance to his close male friendships, in
particular with his publisher John Murray. For the first time she
tells the story of their famous rift, as Byron's poetry became more
recklessly controversial.;Here Byron is viewed as a formative
figure in European romanticism, the literary equivalent of Napoleon
in the sweep of his ambition. He was a charasmatic influence on
19th-century music, painting, dress, manners and the art of
self-preservation. Not merely a poet, Byron was a man of action,
involved in the Italian "Risorgimento" and in the Greek War of
Independence in which he died aged 36. Newly translated letters
illuminate this tragic episode.;Byron was a celebrity in his
lifetime, a "superstar" after the publication of "Childe Harold" in
1812. As the Byron legend grew to unprecendented proportions after
his death, the problem for the biographer has been to sift the
truth from the sentimental, the self-serving and the spurious. What
was Byron really like?
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