Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume IX, 'In the wind's eye', 1821-1822

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

    One of the great pleasures in 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.