Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume IX: 'In the wind's eye', 1821-1822
One of the great pleasures in life… Byron is the most enjoyable letter-writer in the world. (Elizabeth Longford)Marchand's new edition of Byron's letters and diaries is a delight to read. (New York Review of Books)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)[Byron] is one of the most versatile and provocative of our letter writers. More perhaps than any other, he has left us a collection of writings that constitute a brilliant and incisive portrait of their author. (Times Literary Supplement)