Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume X, 'A heart for every fate', 1822-1823

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

    Marchand's new edition of Byron's letters and diaries is a delight to read.
       --New York Review of Books

    Byron's sinewy, funny, electrifying letters are emergency bulletins from a man operating, more often than not, on the extreme edge of despair and disgrace...We begin to read these letters as speedily as he must have written them, held by his scorn, his dissatisfaction with himself and his blazing energy. He is fiercely alive.
       --Newsweek

    Byron is one of the most versatile and provocative of our letter writers. More perhaps than any other, he has left us a collection of writings that constitute a brilliant and incisive portrait of their author.
       --Times Literary Supplement

    Byron was at all times a performer, and his best performance, we have usually agreed, is Don Juan, the most entertaining long poem in English. We may have to think again. Leslie A. Marchand's new edition of the letters and journals suggests Byron's prose may be his strongest work. These letters play on our nerves and get under our skin in a contemporary way.
       --Walter Clemons, Newsweek

    One of the great modern works in progress.
       --St. Louis Post Dispatch

    One of the great pleasures of life...Byron is the most enjoyable letter-writer in the world.
       --Elizabeth Longford

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The late Leslie A. Marchand was Professor of English, Emeritus, Rutgers University. For his lifelong work on Byron, he was given the National Book Critics Circle's Ivan Sandrof Award.