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Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame

Benita Eisler

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#2870 of 3,809 books · #1030 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (1999).

In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron. Eisler reexamines his poetic achievement in the context of his extraordinary life: the shameful and traumatic childhood; the swashbuckling adventures in the East; the instant stardom achieved with the publication of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; his passionate and destructive love affairs, including an incestuous liaison with his half-sister; and finally his tragic death in the cause of Greek independence.

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Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780307773272
Topics
Romantic poetryLiterary biography19th-century England

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