Lord Byron died on April 18, 1824, and so he is having a 200-year moment. The poet Lady Caroline Lamb called “mad, bad, and dangerous to know,” appears in quite a different aspect in Anne Eekhout’s ...
In an introduction to Ariel, Maurois describes his aim as that of a novelist rather than that of a historian or critic. An able psychologist, with a winning sense of humor and a style perfected from ...
Too hot to handle: Lord Byron (left) embarked on a series of affairs all over Europe. Images / Supplied / Getty Images Two hundred years ago, on April 19, 1824, Lord Byron died unexpectedly in Greece.
Byron himself is to be found in the usual first-hand sources of biography, and especially in his letters. For unlike the popular narratives—whether novel or biography—the letters enable us to feel ...
Andrew Stauffer’s new biography, Byron: A Life in Ten Letters, which starts each chapter with a letter from the poet’s own unsettled pen (and quotes empathetically from women’s letters, too), is ...
It takes a biography of George Gordon Noel, the Sixth Lord Byron (1788-1824) to remind us of quite how radically the world of 200 years ago differs from our own modest arrangements. To read even a ...
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