Byron's Greece
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few poets have left as indelible a mark upon a landscape as Lord Byron did upon Greece, and Elizabeth Longford's Byron's Greece chronicles that passionate, fateful connection with the authority of a master biographer. The text traces Byron's turbulent relationship with the Greek world — from his early Grand Tour adventures among the ruins and villages of a land still under Ottoman rule, to his final, doomed chapter at Missolonghi, where he died fighting for Greek independence in 1824. Longford weaves together travelogue, biography, and cultural history to present a vivid portrait of both the poet and the country that consumed him, illuminating the landscapes, peoples, and classical echoes that fired his imagination and shaped his greatest verse. Complemented by Jorge Lewinski's evocative photographs, the work illustrates how Byron's Greece was at once a physical reality and a romantic ideal — a nation he mythologised even as he sought to liberate it. Longford's prose is characteristically precise yet deeply humane, drawing on her formidable biographical instincts to uncover the man beneath the legend. As a study of the intersection between artistic genius and historical destiny, Byron's Greece stands as an indispensable companion for anyone captivated by the Romantic era — and leaves one wondering whether the Greece Byron invented was ever truly lost.
Author: Elizabeth Longford
Format: Hardback
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few poets have left as indelible a mark upon a landscape as Lord Byron did upon Greece, and Elizabeth Longford's Byron's Greece chronicles that passionate, fateful connection with the authority of a master biographer. The text traces Byron's turbulent relationship with the Greek world — from his early Grand Tour adventures among the ruins and villages of a land still under Ottoman rule, to his final, doomed chapter at Missolonghi, where he died fighting for Greek independence in 1824. Longford weaves together travelogue, biography, and cultural history to present a vivid portrait of both the poet and the country that consumed him, illuminating the landscapes, peoples, and classical echoes that fired his imagination and shaped his greatest verse. Complemented by Jorge Lewinski's evocative photographs, the work illustrates how Byron's Greece was at once a physical reality and a romantic ideal — a nation he mythologised even as he sought to liberate it. Longford's prose is characteristically precise yet deeply humane, drawing on her formidable biographical instincts to uncover the man beneath the legend. As a study of the intersection between artistic genius and historical destiny, Byron's Greece stands as an indispensable companion for anyone captivated by the Romantic era — and leaves one wondering whether the Greece Byron invented was ever truly lost.