Despite a life full of incident, romance, intrigue and travel, Byron poured much of his great energy into his poetry. Captivating, brilliant, daring and dissolute, Byron embodied the spirit of the Romantic movement. All poems included are linked by a commentary that places them in a historical and biographical context.
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Byron's anthology also combines biography, comparative literature, and a poetry crash course in just over two hours. As might be expected, given these limitations, there are more fragments here than poetry lovers would prefer. Despite the biographical context, these poems are seldom in chronological order. The narrators refer to Lord Byron as the "Idol of an Age," but that's difficult to discern from the hopelessly overdramatized readings, frustrating at best. On the plus side, fragments from the favorite poems are here-cantos from "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" and later from "Don Juan." The narration illuminates Byron's political views as expressed in the poetry. Still, this is not recommended.-Rochelle Ratner, formerly with "Soho Weekly News," New York.
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