Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume II, 'Famous in my time', 1810-1812

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

  • Winner of the 1974 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association

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

  • Cover: Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume II, 'Famous in my time', 1810-1812

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.