2002, ISBN: 0701171103

[EAN: 9780701171100], [SC: 14.95], [PU: London, Chatto & Windus.], POETRY, Literary Criticism|Poetry, Poetry|English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Biography & Autobiography|General, Biography … More...

[EAN: 9780701171100], [SC: 14.95], [PU: London, Chatto & Windus.], POETRY, Literary Criticism|Poetry, Poetry|English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Biography & Autobiography|General, Biography & Autobiography|Literary, Sprache: English 16 cm x 24 cm. XIII, 402 pages with illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following contents:- The Byrons and Gordons / Childhood in Aberdeen / The Shelleys and Field Place / Isleworth and Dulwich / Harrow and Eton / Eton and Harrow / Oxford and Cambridge / Cambridge and Oxford / Post-University Blues I / Post-University Blues II / Poetic Madness / Byron's Grand Tour / Return and Luddism / Marriage and Exile / Maiden Speeches etc. "Both Byron and Shelley died young. By the time Byron left Harrow, almost half his life was over; and when Shelley left Eton, three-fifths of his life was gone. Ian Gilmour has concentrated on the two poets in their youth, and has told their stories in tandem. Their formative years were packed with incident and had a decisive influence on the later lives of them both. As an historian, Gilmour provides a colourful account of the political, social and economic background to their writings. Byron and Shelley lived in the stormy age of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the post-Napoleon reaction. They became close friends, and though they are usually thought to have been very different from each other, Gilmour shows that they had much more in common than is usually recognised". (Amazon)., Books<

ISBN: 0701171103

Leaving no stone unturned in this illuminating portrait of Byron and Shelley’s formative years, Ian Gilmour’s entertaining dual biography explores the early lives of these two rebellious … More...

Leaving no stone unturned in this illuminating portrait of Byron and Shelley’s formative years, Ian Gilmour’s entertaining dual biography explores the early lives of these two rebellious poets as they pursued freedom from traditional authority—in poetry, in politics, and in love. Born at a time of political and intellectual upheaval, the two well-born heretics were at ideological odds with the establishment even as boys. During their brief stints at university—Shelley was expelled from Oxford after publishing The Necessity of Atheism, and at Cambridge Byron concentrated mostly on gambling and whoring—they developed a fervent mutual hatred of persecution, inequality, and compulsory religion, quite to the shock of their fellow aristocrats. Their embrace of revolutionary ideals manifested itself, too, in their travels abroad, youthful love affairs, and early accomplishments in the literary arena. The twenty-four-year-old Byron became an immediate sensation upon the publication of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage ("I awoke one morning and found myself famous"), but the prolific Shelley would not "become [a] star among the stars of mortal night," as he put it, until after his death. Black-and-white illustrations add to this impressive work, charting the careers of these two revolutionary poets who came to epitomize the Romantic Age. arts and literature,authors,biographical,biographies,biographies and history,biography and history,literary criticism,literary criticism and collections,literature and fiction,poetry Poetry, Chatto & Windus<

2002, ISBN: 9780701171100

2002. London, Chatto & Windus, 2002. 16 cm x 24 cm. XIII, 402 pages with illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition… More...

2002. London, Chatto & Windus, 2002. 16 cm x 24 cm. XIII, 402 pages with illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following contents:- The Byrons and Gordons / Childhood in Aberdeen / The Shelleys and Field Place / Isleworth and Dulwich / Harrow and Eton / Eton and Harrow / Oxford and Cambridge / Cambridge and Oxford / Post-University Blues I / Post-University Blues II / Poetic Madness / Byron's Grand Tour / Return and Luddism / Marriage and Exile / Maiden Speeches etc. "Both Byron and Shelley died young. By the time Byron left Harrow, almost half his life was over; and when Shelley left Eton, three-fifths of his life was gone. Ian Gilmour has concentrated on the two poets in their youth, and has told their stories in tandem. Their formative years were packed with incident and had a decisive influence on the later lives of them both. As an historian, Gilmour provides a colourful account of the political, social and economic background to their writings. Byron and Shelley lived in the stormy age of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the post-Napoleon reaction. They became close friends, and though they are usually thought to have been very different from each other, Gilmour shows that they had much more in common than is usually recognised". (Amazon)., 2002<