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    The Letters of Lord Byron

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    THE LETTERS OF LORD BYRON. George Gordon Byron, was born in 1788 the son of the profligate “Mad Jack” Byron and succeeded to the title in 1798 moving to the family seat of Newstead Abbey. He attended Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he was a poor scholar, preferring boxing, the low life and poetry, publishing his first volume of poems in 1806. In 1809, at 21, he embarked on a grand tour of Europe. On his return he married the dour Annabella Milbanke who had his daughter, Augusta in 1813. The marriage broke down a year later and Byron went abroad never to return to England. Living in Geneva with Percy Shelley and friends Byron had an illegitimate child, Allegra, through his affair with Claire Clairmont. Shortly afterwards he travelled to Italy, meeting the married Countess Teresa Ganba Guiccioli. In 1823 he left Genoa for Cephalonia to help the Greeks in their struggle for independence from the Turks. Whilst there he contracted Marsh fever and died at Missolongi on April 19th 1824. In this production Lord Byron is played by Robert Powell.
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    PublisherThe Copyright Group Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781780001920
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    Lord Byron

    Lord Byron was an English poet and the most infamous of the English Romantics, glorified for his immoderate ways in both love and money. Benefitting from a privileged upbringing, Byron published the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage upon his return from his Grand Tour in 1811, and the poem was received with such acclaim that he became the focus of a public mania. Following the dissolution of his short-lived marriage in 1816, Byron left England amid rumours of infidelity, sodomy, and incest. In self-imposed exile in Italy Byron completed Childe Harold and Don Juan. He also took a great interest in Armenian culture, writing of the oppression of the Armenian people under Ottoman rule; and in 1823, he aided Greece in its quest for independence from Turkey by fitting out the Greek navy at his own expense. Two centuries of references to, and depictions of Byron in literature, music, and film began even before his death in 1824.

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    • 4/5
      Wonderful poetry, but as ever with this kind of all-encompassing collection the layout, font and very small text make it far from pleasurable to read. One of the few types of book I think would be better on an e-reader.
    • 4/5
      The dramas were the only letdown in this book. Exquisite language poised with romanticism and lyricism. Byron lived a wild life and his poetry reflects it. A cosmopolitan, adventurous yet gentle heart beats underneath his words.

      Well worth the read. Recommended.