01509cam a2200181 i 4500008004100000020001800041020001800059040000800077050002400085100002300109245006100132260005200193300001100245505001700256520090300273600008201176650006901258111220s2012    enkb     b    001 0 eng    a9780521111331  a9780521128735  aSDU00aPR4388bL295 C 20121 aLansdown, Richard,14aThe Cambridge introduction to Byron /cRichard Lansdown.  aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2012.  a172 p.  aHKBU Library  a"Author of the most influential long poem of its era (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) and the funniest long poem in European literature (Don Juan), Lord Byron was also the literary superstar of Romanticism, whose effect on nineteenth-century writers, artists, musicians and politicians - but also everyday readers - was second to none. His poems seduced and scandalized readers, and his life and legend were correspondingly magnetic, given added force by his early death in the Greek War of Independence. This introduction compresses his extraordinary life to manageable proportions and gives readers a firm set of contexts in the politics, warfare, and Romantic ideology of Byron's era. It offers a guide to the main themes in his wide-ranging oeuvre, from the early poems that made him famous (and infamous) overnight, to his narrative tales, dramas and the comic epic left incomplete at his death"--10aByron, George Gordon Byron,cBaron,d1788-1824xCriticism and interpretation. 7aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.