01608cam a2200217 i 4500 111220s2012 enkb b 001 0 eng 9780521111331 9780521128735 SDU PR4388 L295 C 2012 Lansdown, Richard, The Cambridge introduction to Byron / Richard Lansdown. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 172 p. HKBU Library "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"-- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 Criticism and interpretation. 210968 LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. 198023 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 112405 112405 0 0 lcc 0 PR4388 L295 C2012 0 CGB 282574 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-22 2 0 PR4388 L295 C 2012 1000374229 2025-09-22 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-22 GBE