Byron in Love
Book description
Acclaimed biographer of James Joyce, Edna O'Brien has written a "jaunty" (The New Yorker) biography that suits her fiery and charismatic subject. She follows Byron from the dissipations of Regency London to the wilds of Albania and the Socratic pleasures of Greece and Turkey, culminating in his meteoric rise to…
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“She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that’s best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.” Since I first read these words in college, I’ve wondered how a man as troubled as Lord Byron could write anything so beautiful.
This past summer I finally found the answer while reading Edna O’Brien’s Byron in Love. The book revealed the tormented heart of Lord Byron, a brilliant and breathtakingly handsome man, who never found a safe haven for the deep emotions he felt anywhere in the world. For all…