Lord George Gordon Byron: 6 books

Lord George Gordon Byron was the flamboyant aristrocratic Romantic poet who is as renown for his personal life as he is for his poetry. Lord Byron lived a short life, from 1788 to 1824, but managed to create a volume of poetry that achieved him the status as one of the greatest English poets and is still...

An English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron's best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the short lyric She Walks in Beauty. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential. Contents Fugitive...

Manfred, a Faustian noble, is tortured by guilt over the death of his beloved, Astarte. He uses his mastery of language and spell-casting to summon seven spirits, from whom he seeks forgetfulness. The spirits are unable to control the past and thus cannot grant Manfred's plea.

George Gordon Lord Byron: Manfred. Ein dramatisches Gedicht Nach seinem Besuch in der Schweiz und einer Reihe von alpinen Wandertouren schreibt Lord Byron 1817 mit »Manfred« eines der ganz großen Werke der Romantik überhaupt und gleichzeitig - neben dem »Frankenstein« seiner Freundin Mary Shelley,...

Mit dieser Auswahl der interessantesten und amüsantesten Briefe und Tagebücher Lord Byrons eröffnet der Byron-Forscher Leslie A. Marchand dem Leser den Zugang zu einem außerordentlich reizvollen Bereich von Byrons Autorschaft – und gibt ihm Gelegenheit, diese berühmteste Gestalt der englischen...

Byron's free-spirited lifestyle combined with his rare poetic gift to make him one of the foremost figures of the Romantic Era. This collection of his poems, richly varied in mood and content, captures the essence of his great achievement. Among the thirty-one poems included are convivial song-like...