{"product_id":"byron-in-love-paperback","title":"Byron In Love  - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eByron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel; imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his notorious flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him from the particular to the universal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEverything about Lord George Gordon Byron was a paradox - insider and outsider, beautiful and deformed, serious and facetious, profligate but on occasion miserly, and possessed of a fierce intelligence trapped forever in a child's magic and malices. He was also a great poet, but as he reminded us, poetry is a distinct faculty and has little to do with the individual life of its creator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEdna O'Brien's exemplary biography focuses upon the diverse and colourful women in Byron's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'O'Brien charts the many loves of the notorious 19th-century poet's reckless life in immediate and candid prose'\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Edna O'Brien has always had a gift for writing about affairs of the heart'\u003cbr\u003e\nGuardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'There is much to enjoy in this idiosyncratic and highly readable account of the poet whose writing enthralled and whose actions appalled in equal measure'\u003cbr\u003e\nIndependent\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W\u0026N","offers":[{"title":"978-1474614443","offer_id":50569570648370,"sku":"Byron In Love  - Paperback","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/8922\/3986\/files\/71935oaRz5L._SL1000.jpg?v=1761898310","url":"https:\/\/greylooponline.com\/products\/byron-in-love-paperback","provider":"greylooponline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}