The Cambridge introduction to Byron /

Author of the most influential long poem of its era (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) and the funniest long poem in European literature (Don Juan), Lord Byron was also the literary superstar of Romanticism, whose effect on nineteenth-century writers, artists, musicians and politicians, but also ever...

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Main Author: Lansdown, Richard, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Life
  • 2. Context
  • 3. The letters and journals
  • 4. The poet as pilgrim
  • 5. The Orient and the outcast
  • 6. Four philosophical tales
  • 7. Histories and mysteries
  • 8. Don Juan
  • 9. Afterword.