George Gordon Byron Byron
12) Poems
Author
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
To the nineteenth-century reader, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was the archetype of the Romantic literary hero, a figure admired and emulated as much for the revolutionary panache with which he lived his life as the brio and allure of his verse. Our century has seen him more clearly as a poet whose intellectual toughness, satiric gifts, and utter inability to be boring have made him one of the great comic spirits in our literature.
13) The major works
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Presents a selection major work from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British poet, Lord Byron, and includes excerpts from "The Corsair" and "Lara," as well as stanzas from "Don Juan," and "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," letters to Lady Melbourne and Thomas Moore, and more.
Author
Series
Rinehart editions volume 54
Pub. Date
[1972]
Edition
Revised and enlarged.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
A century-and-more ago, while some people pondered the pinnacle that civilization had attained, others worried how it would come crashing down. Many of the era's best writers gave shape to those fears in wildly speculative stories that envisioned unthinkable fates and spectacular dooms for our planet and its people.
The End of the World collects twenty-one classic stories and poems from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which the Earth's...
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