The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume I (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): Byron, Lord George Gordon (Author), Prothero, Rowland E. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1409926893 ISBN-13: 9781409926894 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $24.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6" W x 9" (1.29 lbs) 400 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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Publisher Description: George Gordon Byron, later Noel, 6th Baron Byron FRS (1788-1824) was an English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, and So We'll Go no More a-Roving, and the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818) and Don Juan (1819-1824), although the latter remained incomplete on his death. He is regarded as one of the greatest European poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the Englishspeaking world and beyond. Byron served as a regional leader of Italy's revolutionary organization the Carbonari in its struggle against Austria. He later travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died from a fever in Messolonghi in Greece. Amongst his other works are: Fugitive Pieces (1806), Hours of Idleness (also titled Juvenilia) (1807), English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Hebrew Melodies (1815), The Prisoner of Chillon (1816), Manfred (1817) and The Works of Lord Byron (7 volumes) (1898). |