Byron: A Life in Ten Letters review – dispatches from a lusty life
Andrew Stauffer conveys the vigour and pace of the poet’s escapades with brio, but stumbles when he suggests Byron anticipated modern celebrity
Source: theguardian.com
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Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer – promiscuous, comedic and 'darkly charismatic' – The Irish Times
This new book updates Thomas Moore’s biography for the bicentenary of Byron’s death
Source: irishtimes.com
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Walter Scott Prize longlist revealed
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Heroic or insane, debauched or lonely: Lord Byron's many masks
Lord Byron (1788–1824) is among the UK’s greatest exports. Why, then, do so many treat him with embarrassed wariness? Perhaps we judge him for his shocking passions (not least with Augusta, his half-sister, and numerous women and men of the ton, the Grand Tour and the demi-monde) – or abhor his evident abusiveness. Perhaps it’s the extent of his work: thousands of pages of febrile, sometimes puerile rhyme. Or perhaps we simply fear that he is – as Wordsworth once declared – “insane”. In Greece,
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Evening of Spanish poetry beckons at New Dominion Bookshop
Bookmarks offers a glance at book-related events happening in the Charlottesville area in the week to come.
Source: dailyprogress.com