num_pages: 880
description: In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron.Eisler reexamines his poetic achievement in the context of his extraordinary life: the shameful and traumatic childhood; the swashbuckling adventures in the East; the instant stardom achieved with the publication of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; his passionate and destructive love affairs, including an incestuous liaison with his half-sister; and finally his tragic death in the cause of Greek independence. This magnificent record of a towering figure is sure to become the new standard biography of Byron.
language: English
title: Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
titlecomplete: Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
characters: George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
genres: Biography, Romanticism, Literary Criticism, History, Books About Books, Historical, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 237
publisher: Vintage