Byron : a portrait / Leslie A. Marchand
1971, 1st edition. London : John Murray. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #477086
ISBN: 0719522455
Physical description: xvii, 518, xxxiv p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Contents: To 1788 The Byrons and the Gordons -- 1788-1798 Scottish boyhood -- 1798-1801 The young lord -- 1801-1805 Harrow and the hills of Annesley -- 1805-1807 Cambridge: Hours of idleness -- 1808-1809 English bards, and Scotch reviewers -- 1809-1810 The pilgrimage of Childe Harold -- 1810-1811 The clime of the east -- 1811-1812 Thyrza - a radical in Parliament -- 1812 The fame of Childe Harold -- 1813 Amours in Whig society -- 1814 Dangerous liaisons -- 1814 The princess of parallelograms -- 1815 The fatal marriage -- 1816 Fare thee well -- 1816 Childe Harold roams again -- 1816-1817 Expatriate in Venice -- 1817 La Mira: Harold's farewell - Beppo -- 1818-1819 Don Juan on the Grand Canal -- 1819 The Countess Guiccioli -- 1820 Cavalier Servente in Ravenna -- 1820 Preparing for revolution -- 1821 The poetry of politics -- 1821-1822 Shelley and the Pisan circle -- 1822 The drowning of Shelley -- 1822-1823 Exile in Genoa -- 1823 Return to The isles of Greece -- 1824 A "messiah" in Missolonghi -- 1824 A death for Greece -- 1824 The remembered tone of a mute lyre -- Epilogue: post mortems. Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824. Poets, English 19th century ; Biography.
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