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Hail, muse! Etc.(Book Review)
Fiona MacCarthy Byron: Life and Legend. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 674 pages, $35
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) is a "Romantic poet." That tells us little, for Romanticism meant different things to different poets. For Wordsworth it was the morality of mountains, for Coleridge metaphysical musings, for Keats the stimulation of the senses. For Byron it was luxuriating in secret sins. The "Byronic hero"--Childe Harold, the Giaour, Manfred--is dark, brooding, and thrillingly wicked, all the more so in that we are never quite sure what he has done. As Fiona MacCarthy shows in this splendid book, that applied to Byron himself in his lifetime. Byron: Life and ...
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Byron: Life and Legend. Fiona MacCarthy. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002. 674 pp. $35.00. "Fiona MacCarthy, Byron's latest biographer, distinguishes herself from the more than...
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- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine Porter, Eric December 1, 2002 700+ words
...romantic feeling, and carved "Byron is dead" into a rock in Lincolnshire. Lord Byron had been his favorite poet in school. In BYRON: LIFE AND LEGEND (Farrar...35), the English biographer Fiona MacCarthy has given us the most complete...
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...February 16, 2003, examines Byron and the cult that grew up around...Dangerous, the Cult of Lord Byron, the show's curator is Fiona MacCarthy. There is no catalogue, but a new biography entitled Byron: Life and Legend, written by...
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- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review May 1, 2003 700+ words
Byron: Life and Legend. Fiona MacCarthy. John Murray. [pounds sterling...fame. It is this fame, as well as Byron's achievements as a poet, that fascinate Miss MacCarthy. Byron was one of the earliest 'celebrities...
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- Magazine article from: Biography March 22, 2003 700+ words
Fiona MacCarthy. New York: Farrar, Straus...eccentric book is a study of Byron's posthumous reputation...There is still much about Byron that remains obscure...therefore be the last word on Byron." Adam Sisman. LATBR...
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- Magazine article from: The New Leader Pettingell, Phoebe November 1, 2002 700+ words
...Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron's life continues to fascinate...Marchand's 1957 three-volume Byron: A Biography. Now Fiona MacCarthy, who has given us portraits...21st-century sensibilities in Byron: Life and Legend (Farrar Straus...
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- Magazine article from: New Statesman Akam, Simon February 9, 2009 700+ words
...boy-poets tend to attract latter-day female literary admirers. Seven years ago, Fiona MacCarthy plumbed George Gordon Byron's omnivorous desires in Byron: Life and Legend and now, with The Great Lover, Jill Dawson has turned her attention...
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