Lord Byron's Correspondence by George Gordon Byron, John Murray - 9781108033947

Lord Byron's CorrespondenceChiefly with Lady Melbourne, Mr. Hobhouse, the Hon. Douglas Kinnaird, and P. B. Shelley\nAuthor(s): George Gordon Byron, John Murray\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108033947, 978-1108033947\nSynopsis\nA leading figure in Romanticism and a political campaigner committed to social reform, Lord Byron [tel] is regarded as one of the greatest of British poets. First published in 1922, this two-volume work is a compilation of letters Byron wrote between 1808 and 1824 to some of his close friends, including Lady Melbourne, John Cam Hobhouse, a fellow-student at Cambridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The introduction and biographical notes by the publisher John Murray IV [tel], grandson of Byron's own publisher John Murray II, supplement the letters and restore their narrative thread. Volume 1 covers the period [tel], from the trip Byron took across Europe with Hobhouse as a.