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Traces the life of the English nineteenth-century poet, and discusses his major works
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"Quite simply the best life of Byron we have." --Literary Review
"Lively. . .vividly told. . . . A much more detailed and illuminating account of the poet's private life than any previous book." --The Washington Post Book World
"A splendidly readable biography of a perpetually fascinating genius." --The Atlantic Monthly
"[Eisler's ] book will . . . be the one to beat for many decades to come.
. . . [She] is especially artful and dexterous in matching the poetry to the life and the ideas." --Los Angeles Times
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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"Lively. . .vividly told. . . . A much more detailed and illuminating account of the poet's private life than any previous book." --The Washington Post Book World
"A splendidly readable biography of a perpetually fascinating genius." --The Atlantic Monthly
"[Eisler's ] book will . . . be the one to beat for many decades to come.
. . . [She] is especially artful and dexterous in matching the poetry to the life and the ideas." --Los Angeles Times
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Benita Eisler is the author of O'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romance. She lives in New York City.
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- Data di pubblicazione1999
- ISBN 10 0679412999
- ISBN 13 9780679412991
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. Illustrated w/ 16 pp. of photographs (illustratore). Stated First Edition. FASCINATING: VIVID: INCISIVE: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. April 1999) w/ full no. line showing First Printing, NEW unclipped mylar-protected sepia-illustrated jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, SUPERB cover w/ chocolate paper wrapping spine & extending 2.00" onto front & back panels covered w/ BEAUTIFUL lemon laid paper & w/ titles handsomely gold-stamped on spine & "B" elegantly center-stamped on front panel, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ deckle side-edging, EXCELLENT binding w/ tight sheets & brown-gold cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock illus. end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.50" x 9.50" x 2.12", 1.44 kg, xii+837 (849) pp. * Illustrated * ABOUT THE BOOK: Benita Eisler's Byron is a masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era & prefigured the modern age of celebrity--an absorbing, illuminating, & wonderfully entertaining account of Lord Byron's spectacular life, monumental work, & lasting heroic legacy. Drawing on previously unavailable material--including family papers only recently brought to light--Eisler offers us a more complex vision of Byron than any we've had before: a man who rose from the depths of poverty & the humiliation of childhood lameness to a pinnacle of success & fame unlike anything the world had ever seen, & whose bravura identity as renegade aristocrat, political revolutionary, mythic lover, & Romanticism's galvanizing hero & antihero was surpassed in brilliance only by his poetic genius. With grace, erudition, & insight, Eisler captures the passions & obsessions that consumed Byron, the fierce devotions & the out-sized ego that fired his work, & the despair & self-loathing that plagued his short life. Eisler gives us a richly detailed drama of a childhood of abandonment & shame; of Byron's early days at Harrow & Cambridge; of his humiliating entry into the House of Lords at 18; of his adventures in the East, where he consorted w/ pashas & prostitutes; of his relationships w/ his contemporaries, among them the 24-year-old Shelley & his wife, Mary; of the instant celebrity that attended the publication of the first cantos of 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'; & of the almost vengeful determination w/ which Byron recast himself as the elegant figure that glided through Regency drawing rooms, plotted w/ Italian Carbonari, loved men & women, & drew sensation to him like a cloak until his death, alone & in exile, at the age of 36. Here also are the first in-depth portraits of the women--& men--Byron loved: his guilty relations w/ John Edleston, a young Cambridge chorister; his tempestuous affair w/ Lady Caroline Lamb, who was driven to madness by her love for him; his catastrophic marriage to the lovely Annabella Milbanke; his passionate incestuous relationship w/ his half sister, Augusta, & the tormented menage a trois they shared w/ his young wife; & the gentler love of his later life, Teresa Guiccioli, whom he abandoned for his life's last adventure in Missolonghi. Throughout, Eisler offers incisive analysis of Byron's poetry in the context of his extraordinary life--as hero & martyr, aristocratic aesthete & dandy, transgressive rebel fueled by forbidden substances & exiled for forbidden passions--examining in detail the stanzas that inspired his own & succeeding generations as no other writer has since Shakespeare. A magnificent record of a towering figure, sure to stand as the definitive biography for years to come. * HIGH PRAISE: "Benita Eisler's biography of Byron is a fascinating portrait, filled w/ vivid details, of a dramatic life, & her incisive analysis of his work reminds us of his greatness as a poet." -Robert A. Caro * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: BENITA EISLER is the author of critically acclaimed biographies, including "O'Keefe & Stieglitz: An American Romance". She lives in New York City. Codice articolo 009580
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Benita Eisler's Byron is a masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and pre-figured the modern age of celebrity--an absorbing, illuminating, and wonderfully entertaining account of Lord Byron's spectacular life, monumental work, and lasting heroic legacy.Drawing on previously unavailable material--including family papers only recently brought to light--Eisler offers us a more complex vision of Byron than any we've had before: a man who rose from the depths of poverty and the humiliation of childhood lameness to a pinnacle of success and fame unlike anything the world had ever seen, and whose bravura identity as renegade aristocrat, political revolutionary, mythic lover, and Romanticism's galvanizing hero and antihero was surpassed in brilliance only by his poetic genius.With grace, erudition, and insight, Eisler captures the passions and obsessions that consumed Byron, the fierce devotions and the outsized ego that fired his work, and the despair and self-loathing that plagued his short life. Eisler gives us a richly detailed drama of a childhood of abandonment and shame; of Byron's early days at Harrow and Cambridge; of his humiliating entry into the House of Lords at eighteen; of his adventures in the East, where he consorted with pashas and prostitutes; of his relationships with his contemporaries, among them the twenty-four-year-old Shelley and his wife, Mary; of the instant celebrity that attended the publication of the first cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; and of the almost vengeful determination with which Byron recast himself as the elegant figure that glided through Regency drawing rooms, plotted with Italian Carbonari, loved men and women, and drew sensation to him like a cloak until his death, alone and in exile, at the age of thirty-six.Here also are the first in-depth portraits of the women--and men--Byron loved: his guilty relations with John Edleston, a young Cambridge chorister; his tempestuous affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, who was driven to madness by her love for him; his catastrophic marriage to the lovely Annabella Milbanke; his passionate incestuous relationship with his half sister, Augusta, and the tormented menage a trois they shared with his young wife; and the gentler love of his later life, Teresa Guiccioli, whom he abandoned for his life's last adventure in Missolonghi. Throughout, Eisler offers incisive analysis of Byron's poetry in the context of his extraordinary life--as hero and martyr, aristocratic aesthete and dandy, transgressive rebel fueled by forbidden substances and exiled for forbidden passions--examining in detail the stanzas that inspired his own and succeeding generations as no other writer has since Shakespeare.A magnificent record of a towering figure, sure to stand as the definitive biography for years to come. Codice articolo DADAX0679412999
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