Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life by Enda O'Brien

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Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life by Enda O'Brien

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ISBN:
9780393080118
Author:
Enda O'Brien
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date:
2009
Format:
Hardback

An acclaimed biographer of James Joyce Edna O’Brien has written an intimate biography that suits her fiery and charismatic subject. She follows Byron …

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Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life by Enda O'Brien

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An acclaimed biographer of James Joyce Edna O’Brien has written an intimate biography that suits her fiery and charismatic subject. She follows Byron from the dissipations of Regency London to the wilds of Albania and the Socratic pleasures of Greece and Turkey, culminating in his meteoric rise to fame at the age of twenty-four on the publication of Childe Harold. With her prismatic eye and novelistic style, O’Brien eerily captures the spirit of the man and creates an indelible portrait of Byron that explodes the Romantic myth. From his escapades with John Edleston, the fourteen-year-old Cambridge choir boy, to those with a galaxy of women that included his half-sister, his wife of one year, and the Italian countess who forsook her satyr-like husband for “the peer of England and its greatest poet,” Byron scandalized the world and inspires “Byronmania” to this day. Byron, as brilliantly rendered by O’Brien, is the poet as a rebel, imaginative and lawless, and defiantly immortal. 8 pages of illustrations.

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