‘In my hot youth,’ 1798–1810 (Volume I) (Byron's Letters and Journals) - Hardcover

Byron, George Gordon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674089405 ISBN 13: 9780674089402

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 1973

Synopsis

George Gordon Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness of his observation of people. They provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. In addition, they offer a mirror of his own time. This first collected edition of all Byron’s known letters supersedes Prothero’s incomplete edition at the turn of the century. It includes a considerable number of hitherto unpublished letters and the complete text of many that were bowdlerized by former editors for a variety of reasons. Prothero’s edition included 1,198 letters. This edition has more than 3,000, over 80 percent of them transcribed entirely from the original manuscripts.

The first volume of Byron’s letters and journals covers his early years and includes his first pilgrimage to Greece and to the East, ending with his last letter from Constantinople on July 4, 1810, before his departure for Athens. Here is the direct record of his rapid development from the serious schoolboy to the facetious youth with ambivalent reactions to his perplexed mother, and the maturing man of extraordinary perceptions and sympathies and friendships. By the end of this volume he has already written English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (in part a spirited reaction to the reception of his earliest published work) and the first two Cantos of Childe Harold (published in 1812), which was to make him famous.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This first collected edition of all Byron's known letters supersedes Prothero's incomplete edition at the turn of the century. This edition will have more than 3,000, over 80 percent of them transcribed entirely from the original manuscripts.

About the Author:

The late Leslie A. Marchand was Professor of English, Emeritus, Rutgers University. For his lifelong work on Byron, he was given the National Book Critics Circle's Ivan Sandrof Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0674089405
• ISBN 13: 9780674089402
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 298
• Editor: Marchand Leslie A.