Reading Byron - 9781800854628

Reading ByronPoems Life Politics\nAuthor(s): Bernard Beatty\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781800854628, 978-1800854628\nSynopsis\nPerhaps no great poet, in any language, has suffered more than Byron from being merely read about rather than actually read. As Bernard Beatty remarks in his introduction to this important collection of essays, the popular conception of Byron still often approximates to Rupert Everett with a limp.\n\nReading Byron is the product and summation of nearly sixty years devoted to studying and teaching his poetry. It argues that, far from being mad, bad and dangerous to know, Byron is serious, ethically orientated and rewarding to read. The book is in three parts: Poems Life Politics. Five new essays have been written especially for the first and largest section, which provides fresh perspectives on Byrons major works. The volume continues with three of Beatty's lively.