Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life by Edna O'Brien
Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life by Edna O'Brien is a 228-page hardcover published in 2009 by W.W. Norton & Company. The dust jacket is fully intact with only light wear. Inside, the pages are crisp and the binding is tight. Book Summary Byron is a mythic figure--a superb poet, an insatiable love, the epitome of the great artist who dies young. His very name suggests wildness, rebelliousness, artistic frenzy. Born in 1788, Byron has transcended his age more than any other poet, inspiring generations of poets, artists, even rock stars. In Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life, the acclaimed Irish novelist Edna O'Brien captures the essential truths of his destructive genius. As O'Brien relates, George Gordon, Lord Byron, was five feet eight and a half inches in height, had a malformed right foot, chestnut hair, a haunting pallor, gray eyes fringed with dark lashes, and an enchantingness that neither men nor women could resist. Everything about him was a paradox--insider and ou