Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
Klappentext: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: renegade aristocrat, political revolutionary, mythic lover of women and men, Romanticism's ultimate hero, the poet whose work inspired his own and succeeding generations as no other writer since Shakespeare.
Drawing on previously unavailable material, Eisler shows Byron's story as even richer and more colorful than we previously knew. She 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 of Childe Harold's 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.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:Benita Eisler is the author of O'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romance. She lives in New York City.
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