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 Harolds 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Well writtenBy John C. BeavenThis is a well written. comprehensive book.0 of 5 people found the following review helpful. EXtraordinarily legible history of musicBy Fernando Rodriguez GonzalezThis volume promises a lot to continue reading the other four of this Histry of Music. Enjoy it and learn a lot with it.7 of 46 people found the following review helpful. a case of misrepresenationBy Renato BasergaRichard Taruskin is a towering musicologist and music historian. and when I saw this book advertised. I rushed to buy it. It turns out to be a separate copy of a part of his monumental History of Western Music. If you do not have the whole 5 volumes of the History. then you will enjoy this book. but if you already have the History. then this is just a partial copy. My suggestion to the publishers is that this should have been made clearer to the public. After all. if it had been a new work of Taruskin.....
