Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume XII, 'The trouble of an index', index

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

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

    [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

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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.