Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume XI: 'For freedom's battle', 1823-1824
Byron's letters are among the most spirited in the English language and are irresistible. (The New Yorker)Byron's sinewy, funny, electrifying letters are emergency bulletins from a man operating, more often than not, on the extreme edge of despair and disgrace… We begin to read these letters as speedily as he must have written them, held by his scorn, his dissatisfaction with himself and his blazing energy. He is fiercely alive. (Newsweek)