Byron: Life and Legend 9781444799873, 1444799878

Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-fa

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Byron: Life and Legend
9781444799873, 1444799878

Perhaps no great poet, in any language, has suffered more than Byron from being merely read about rather than actually r

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Explores Byron as the figurehead of Romanticism and the writer of provocatively 'marginal' texts This book ap

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