Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0679412999, 0679740856 | 864 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0679412999, 0679740856 | 864 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron.
Eisler reexamines his poetic achievement in the context of his extraordinary life: the shameful and traumatic childhood; the swashbuckling adventures in the East; the instant stardom achieved with the publication ofChilde Harold's Pilgrimage; his passionate and destructive love affairs, including an incestuous liaison with his half-sister; and finally his tragic death in the cause of Greek independence. This magnificent record of a towering figure is sure to become the new standard biography of Byron.