The Shorter Byron
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Rhys, Ernest) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Shorter Byron: Lyrics and Other Poems; Satirical and Occasional Verse; Letters In some spirited "Observations" - a reply to the attacks on Don Juan - Byron wrote, "The life of a writer has been said, by Pope, I believe, to be a warfare upon earth." So far as his own experience went, he added, there was nothing to say against the proposition. Warfare in one shape or another was written in Byrons book of destiny. It affected his boyhood, his relations with his mother, his terms at Cambridge, his marriage and his love-affairs, his wanderings in Italy and the East, and at the end a war provided the climax, and he died a world-hero. "He died," as his epitaph at Hucknall Church has it, at Missolonghi, in Western Greece, on the 19th of April, 1824, "engaged in the glorious attempt to restore that country to her ancient freedom and renown." In this book will be found a choice of his lyrics and letters, with some added pages, what he would have called his "brief oracle" - in a word, his breviary. The service a shorter Byron, such as this, can do the modern reader, impatient of long poems and heavy literary baggage, is to recall first his personal effect - the effect he had on his contemporaries, and then those distinctive parts of his writings which to-day help us to envisage him in his living presence and still surviving poetic reality. For the first, we can recover a prose portrait, which only needs to be coloured by some of the familiar comments in Moores Life and Letters to have its full impact. "Of his face," said Tom Moore, "the beauty may be pronounced to have been of the highest order, combining regularity of features with the most varied and interesting expression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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