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Byron's Letters & Journals - For Freedom's Battle 1823-1824 Vol 11

Lord George Gordon Byron Leslie A Marchand

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  • 252 sidor
  • 1981
An enchanting epistolary saga ends with the publication of this volume. 'For Freedom's Battle' contains the letters Byron wrote from Greece between August 1823 and April 9, 1824, ten days before his death. Also included are over fifty letters dating from 1807 to 1820 that have come to light since Leslie A. Marchand began this project ten years ago.br>In the letters from Greece a new set of correspondents appears, and a new tone is apparent. Although occasionally playful, Byron is preoccupied with the revolution and his efforts to unite the Greeks in a common cause despite their discord. His chief correspondents are his business agents in the islands and his banker friend in Genoa, Charles Barry, to whom he writes frank accounts of daily affairs. His letters to Hobhouse and to John Bowring attempt to give a realistic picture of the Greek struggle. To Teresa Guiccioli he writes only short, dutiful postscripts in English to the longer letters addressed to her brother.

Among the additional letters that became available too late to take their chronological place in the earlier volumes are those discovered in 1976, locked in a trunk at Barclays Bank; all but one of these fourteen letters were written to Scrope Davies, Byron's witty friend and drinking companion.
  • Författare: Lord George Gordon Byron, Leslie A Marchand
  • Illustratör: Leslie Alexis Marchand
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780674089532
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 252
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1981-07-01