Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume XI, 'For freedom's battle', 1823-1824

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

    Byron's letters are among the most spirited in the English language and are irresistible.
       --The New Yorker

    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

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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.