Full name: Byron: Life and Legend

Author: Fiona MacCarthy Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, History, Poetry Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780571179978 0571179975

This biography reinterprets the great man's life and poetry. MacCarthy casts a fresh eye on Byron's childhood in Scotland, his embattled relations with his mother and his series of relationships with adolescent boys. Similar books: Byron by Benita Eisler Arthur Rimbaud by Enid Starkie Anne Sexton by Diane Middlebrook Savage Art by Robert Polito Soldier by Karen DeYoung The World Is What It Is by Patrick French A Lot to Ask by Hazel Holt The Life of Raymond Chandler by Frank MacShane A Tragic Honesty by Blake Bailey Simenon by Pierre Assouline Anais by Noel Riley Fitch Howard Hughes by Donald L. Barlett Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Susan Hertog Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe Simone de Beauvoir by Deirdre Bair Music at Midnight by John Drury Walt Whitman's America by David S. Reynolds Paul Celan by John Felstiner Young Romantics by Daisy Hay Rimbaud by Edmund White