Selected Poems of Lord Byron

Including Don Juan and Other Poems

Lord Byron author Dr Paul Wright editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Published:5th Mar '94

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With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Dr Paul Wright, Trinity College, Carmarthen.

'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.

ISBN: 9781853264061

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 41mm

Weight: 509g

816 pages

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