β Scribed by Lord George G. Byron
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Poet, celebrity, and revolutionary, Lord (George Gordon) Byron was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the first half of the nineteenth century, his distinctive, deeply felt work comprising one of the enduring high points of Romantic literature. From "Manfred," with its evocation of the figure that came to be called the "Byronic hero," to the melancholy "Childe Harold," to the satirical masterpiece "Don Juan" (presented here in judiciously selected form), this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes all of the essential Byron.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical, and the works selected in this volume represent more than sixty years in the life of the poet. In early poems such as Prometheus," he rails against religion in an almost ecstatic fervor, while "To the Moon" is an enigmatic meditati
Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Reading Hugh MacDiarmid; Recalling Hugh MacDiarmid; Chronology; from Sonnets of the Highland Hills; Well Hung; A Moment in Eternity; The Fool; A Last Song; The Dying Earth; The Bonnie Broukit Bairn; The Watergaw; The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch; Ex
Lord Byron is troubled. Is his new poem a catharsis of self-loathing at being attracted to other men or an incantation that turns him into an incubus that seeks such sins? Or perhaps something much worse: an apocalyptic prophecy. Present-day Professor Adam Fane is beginning to suffer from what he be