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Selected Poems of Byron (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library)

By George Gordon Byron

Book information

Year
1998
ISBN
1853264067, 9781853264061
Open Library ID
OL8978755M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9202390 bytes)
Pages
816\803
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

'I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be', wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece Don Juan, which follows the adventures of the hero across the Europe and near East which Byron knew so well, touching on the major political, cultural and social concerns of the day. This selection includes all of that poem, and selections from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the satirical poems English Bards and Scotch Reviewers and A Vision of Judgement. Paul Wright's detailed introductions place Byron's colourful life and work within their broader social and political contexts, and demonstrate that Byron both fostered and critiqued the notorious 'Byronic myth' of heroic adventure, political action and sexual scandal.

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