Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VII: ‘Between two worlds,’ 1820

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Hardcover

ISBN 9780674089471

Publication date: 01/01/1978

Byron’s letters provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. Readers and reviewers have responded with great enthusiasm to Leslie Marchand's new unexpurgated edition.

Praise

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… He is fiercely alive.

—Newsweek
These are some of the best letters in English.

—New York Times

Author

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.