The Complete Poetical Works (Three-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Usual lib markings on title page. Clean text.
Few poets have captured the Romantic imagination with the same volcanic intensity as George Gordon, Lord Byron, and The Complete Poetical Works — meticulously edited by Jerome J. McGann — presents the full breadth of his genius across three authoritative volumes. From the caustic wit of his early satires and the brooding lyricism of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage to the mercurial brilliance of his Turkish Tales and the biting social comedy of Don Juan, this landmark edition chronicles the entire arc of one of English literature's most dazzling and scandalous careers. McGann's scholarly apparatus, drawn from years of definitive textual research, uncovers manuscript variants and compositional histories that transform these volumes into an indispensable resource for both the devoted reader and the serious academic. Byron's verse — restless, ironic, and electrifyingly alive — argues for a vision of human freedom that challenged the moral orthodoxies of the Regency age and continues to resonate with provocative force. Whether encountering Byron for the first time or returning to his work with fresh eyes, readers will find in these pages a poet whose contradictions — aristocrat and radical, cynic and idealist — make him as compelling as ever.
Author: Lord Byron; Jerome J. McGann
Format: Paperback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Usual lib markings on title page. Clean text.
Few poets have captured the Romantic imagination with the same volcanic intensity as George Gordon, Lord Byron, and The Complete Poetical Works — meticulously edited by Jerome J. McGann — presents the full breadth of his genius across three authoritative volumes. From the caustic wit of his early satires and the brooding lyricism of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage to the mercurial brilliance of his Turkish Tales and the biting social comedy of Don Juan, this landmark edition chronicles the entire arc of one of English literature's most dazzling and scandalous careers. McGann's scholarly apparatus, drawn from years of definitive textual research, uncovers manuscript variants and compositional histories that transform these volumes into an indispensable resource for both the devoted reader and the serious academic. Byron's verse — restless, ironic, and electrifyingly alive — argues for a vision of human freedom that challenged the moral orthodoxies of the Regency age and continues to resonate with provocative force. Whether encountering Byron for the first time or returning to his work with fresh eyes, readers will find in these pages a poet whose contradictions — aristocrat and radical, cynic and idealist — make him as compelling as ever.