The Life of Byron Elizabeth Longford

Byron's literary and political records were no less stormy. Growing up (like most Romantic poets) in the thrall of the French Revolution, he became an outspoken proponent of liberty and an impassioned defender of the downtrodden. Controversial speeches in the House of Lords defending the Luddites were followed in his long exile by plotting for Italian independence and the ill-fated attempt "to prove in his own person that a poet may be a soldier" in the Greek war for independence. His death at age 36 presented Europe with such legacies as the "Byronic lover-hero" and a string of sporadically successful liberations - "of peoples from oppression, of society from cant, of language from banality, and of the poet from his ivory tower." Elizabeth Longford is particularly skillful in sorting through the tangled interchange between Byron's poetry and his riven personality. Drawing expertly from his letters and journals, she reconciles Byron's aristocratic pride with his self-mocking... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Life of Byron (Elizabeth Longford)