UPC 9780674089419 Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume II: 'Famous in My Time', 1810-1812
ISBN 9780674089419 - Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume II: 'Famous in My Time', 1810-1812
ISBN 9780674089419 Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume II: 'Famous in My Time', 1810-1812
Description 9780674089419
Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness of his observation of people. They provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. In addition, they offer a mirror of his own time: the world of the Regency society with its morals and personalities. This first collected edition of all Byron's known letters supersedes Prothero's incomplete edition at the turn of the century. It includes a considerable number of hitherto unpublished letters and the complete text of ma 9780674089419