Byron in Love
ISBN 13: 9780753826461 ISBN 10: 0753826461
Author: O'Brien, Edna
Pub Date: 1 Mar 2010
Answer Code: Available
Edition Type: 1
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Phoenix
RRP: $29.99
Description
Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his gigantic flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him from the particular to the universal.
Everything about Lord George Gordon Byron was a paradox - insider and outsider, beautiful and deformed, serious and facetious, profligate but on occasion miserly and possessed of a fierce intelligence trapped forever in a child's magic and malices. He was also a great poet, but as he reminded us, poetry is a distinct faculty and has little to do with the individual life of its creator.
Edna O'Brien's exemplary biography focuses upon the diverse and colourful women in Byron's life.
Author Bio
Edna O'Brien is the author of 24 books. She was the winner of the 1993 Writer's Guild Prize For Fiction. Her recent fiction has been about Irish topics - religion, politics, property. Her novel, IN THE FOREST - about a brutal murder on the west coast - caused a furore throughout Ireland and was the subject of a BBC Omnibus film.
The Country Girls ( BPB Nov 07);
Part of The Pattern;
The Light Of Evening;
A Fanatic Heart;
James Joyce;
In The Forest;
Wild Decembers;
Scandalous Woman;
Lantern Slides.
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