9780374186296-0374186294-Byron: Life and Legend

Byron: Life and Legend

ISBN-13: 9780374186296
ISBN-10: 0374186294
Edition: First Edition
Author: Fiona MacCarthy
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 688 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780374186296
ISBN-10: 0374186294
Edition: First Edition
Author: Fiona MacCarthy
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 688 pages

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Byron: Life and Legend (ISBN-13: 9780374186296 and ISBN-10: 0374186294), written by authors Fiona MacCarthy, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2002. With an overall rating of 5.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Authors (Arts & Literature) books. You can easily purchase or rent Byron: Life and Legend (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Authors books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $5.79.

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Lord Byron in all his controversial splendor--the long-awaited, authoritative biography

With this brilliant book, Fiona MacCarthy has produced the most important work on Byron in nearly half a century. Granted unprecedented access to many documents and artifacts unexamined by previous scholars, the acclaimed biographer brings a fresh, engaging sensibility to a full appreciation of the poet's life and art.

Byron: Life and Legend explores heretofore unrevealed aspects of Byron's complex creative existence, reassessing his poetry, reinterpreting his incomparable letters, and reconsidering the voluminous record left by the poet's contemporaries: his friends and family, his critics and supporters.

MacCarthy's scope is comprehensive, giving due weight to each aspect of her subject's genius and covering the full range of his life, retracing his journeys through Italy, Turkey, and Greece and culminating in his heroic voyage to Missolonghi, where he died at the tragically early age of thirty-six. After his death, a pervasive Byronism swept Europe; presented here is the fascinating evolution of his posthumous reputation and its influence on literature, architecture, painting, music, manners, sex and psyche.

Full of energy and detail, subtlety and glamour, this vital new study reestablishes Byron as a charismatic figure in the forefront of European art.

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