Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

AvAndrew Stauffer

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame - and scandal - before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also left behind the vast trove of thrilling letters (to friends, relatives, lovers, and more) that form the core of this remarkable biography. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Byron's death, and adopting a fresh approach, it explores his life and work through some of his best, most resonant correspondence. Each chapter opens with Byron's own voice - as if we have opened a letter from the poet himself - followed by a vivid account of the emotions and experiences that missive touches. This gripping life traces the meteoric trajectory of a poet whose brilliance shook the world and whose legacy continues to shape art and culture to this day.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-04
Mått:200 x 10 x 130 mm
Vikt:300 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Lives in Ten Letters
Antal sidor:412
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009599412

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Andrew Stauffer is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the President of the Byron Society of America. He is the author of Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and of Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library (2020), which was the first recipient in 2021 of the inaugural Marilyn Gaull Book Award of the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association. He is in addition the co-editor of Lord Byron: Selected Writings (2023).

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'This new biography of Byron is a miracle of condensation; by putting the letters centre-stage, Professor Stauffer manages to let his subject speak for himself in all the contradictory range of his moods and circumstances – at the same time as elegantly and unobtrusively shaping a narrative that leaps off the page.' Roderick Beaton, Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek & Byzantine History, Language & Literature, King's College London

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Introduction; 1. A Spice of Every Thing: To Elizabeth Pigot, 26 October 1807, Trinity College, Cambridge; 2. The Air of Greece: To Henry Drury, 3 May 1810, Salsette Frigate in the Dardanelles off Abydos, Turkey; 3. Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know: To Lady Melbourne, 8 October 1813, Aston Hall, Rotherham, Yorkshire; 4. Fare Thee Well: To Lady Byron, 8 February 1816, 13 Piccadilly Terrace, London; 5. Haunted Summer: To Augusta Leigh, 8 September 1816, Villa Diodati, Cologny, near Geneva; 6. The Greenest Isle of My Imagination: To John Murray, 1 August 1819, Ravenna / Venice; 7. Strictest Adultery: To Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 7 December 1819, Venice; 8. A Funeral Pile: To Thomas Moore, 27 August 1822, Pisa; 9. To Join the Greeks: To John Cam Hobhouse, 7 April 1823, Casa Saluzzo, Albaro, near Genoa; 10. Pilgrim of Eternity: To John Murray, 25 February 1824, Messolonghi; After Byron.