Lord Byron
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Extrait : "Le "bon vieux temps" est revenu - (tous les temps sont bons quand ils sont vieux); - le temps actuel pourrait l'être s'il voulait; il y a eu de grandes choses, il y en a encore; et pour qu'il y en ait de plus grandes, les simples mortels n'ont qu'à vouloir: un espace plus vaste, un champ plus vert se déroule devant ceux qui "jouent leur jeu à la face du ciel."
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42) Poésies diverses
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Extrait : "Adieu, colline o les joies de l'enfance ont couronné de roses mon jeune front, o la Science appelle l'écolier paresseux pour lui dispenser ses trésors ; adieu, amis ou ennemis de mon jeune âge, compagnons de mes premiers plaisirs, de mes premières peines ; nous ne parcourons plus ensemble les sentiers d'Ida ; je descendrai bientt dans l'étroite et sombre demeure o il fait toujours nuit et o l'on dort d'un éternel sommeil."
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Extrait : "On sait, ou du moins on doit savoir, que dans tous les pays catholiques, quelques semaines avant le mardi-gras, la population s'en donne à cœur joie ; on achète le repentir avant de se faire dévot ; et, sans distinction de rang ou d'état, chacun appelle à son aide le violon, la bonne chère, la danse, le vin, les masques, et autres choses qu'on peut avoir en les demandant."
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Who are the literary ancestors of Dracula? How did the classic vampire-the tall, dark, elegant aristocrat with an endless life and an unquenchable thirst for blood-become a mass-media star? James Grant Goldin presents a curated anthology of the original texts, some freshly translated, that trace the evolution of the vampire lord in the 18th and 19th centuries. Newspaper accounts of "real" vampires in the Austro-Hungarian Empire bring word of a new...
45) Lord Byron
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The epitome of the romantic literary hero, Lord Byron was as well known in his time for the revolutionary panache with which he lived as for his extremely popular verse. “As a myth,” wrote Bertrand Russell, “his importance, especially on the continent, was enormous.” His many tempestuous relationships were the subject of scandal which only added to his celebrity. His name has even entered into our language to describe a man of deep passion...
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This volume of Lord Byron's poetry contains four sets of his poems, starting with his famous book of poetry, Hebrew Melodies, and continuing with the Poems of the Separation, poetry he wrote in the period 1816-1823, his Jeux d'Esprit, and a group of poems written in homage to the great poets of Italy.
Hebrew Melodies is a collection of lyrics Byron wrote to be set to music, as indeed they were, by a composer named Isaac Nathan. Byron wrote that the...
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This volume of The Poetry of Lord Byron is focused on work in which Byron dealt with certain themes that recurred throughout his career, especially personal integrity in the search for freedom and for love, and the suffering that can go with that search.
The Prisoner of Chillon, the keynote piece of this volume, is one of Byron's most riveting pieces. Based on the true story of Francois Bonivard, it tells its story of political repression and human...
48) Turkish Tales
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We hope you will enjoy these fine, old-fashioned stories that Lord Byron wrote in an old-fashioned way. He tells these tales in rhyming verse and heroic couplets, and he makes them dashing, romantic, and even melodramatic in a way that has become foreign to us with the passing of time.
These are tales of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish empire that, in Lord Byron's day, encompassed what we now know as the Middle East from Iran to Morocco, the modern...
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A selection illustrating the breathtaking variety of Byron's poetry. Read by Linus Roache, star of the critically acclaimed film Wings of the Dove, this collection includes She Walks in Beauty, The Destruction of Sennacherib, The Vision of Judgment and selections from Childe Harold, The Corsair and Don Juan. A selection illustrating the breathtaking variety of Byron's poetry.
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¡Sumérgete en la épica y apasionante historia de "Don Juan" de Lord Byron, ahora en una cautivadora versión en audiolibro en español! Nuestra excepcional narración te transportará a través de las brillantes y sensuales estrofas de este clásico literario.
Cada palabra y cada verso de "Don Juan" se han preservado en su totalidad, ofreciéndote una experiencia de audición ininterrumpida y completa. Nuestro audiolibro es completamente fiel...
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This volume of the Freshwater Seas Lord Byron set consists of 54 poems written during the years 1809-1816. Many were included in various editions of longer works, particularly the 1812 and later editions of Childe Harold; others were published in various newspapers and periodicals, especially the Morning Chronicle; a few were not published until after the author's death, sometimes long after.
The mood is as varied as were the occasions of the compositions....
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For those who love Byron's poetry, the value of this work is not so much the poetry itself as the promise of what is to come. It is fascinating to see how his power as a poet is constantly growing and to see how his enormously romantic heart and soul goes about fashioning itself.
Though a young man, he often writes as if he were old, musing on days gone by, especially his schoolboy life at Harrow. He tries his hand at several genres: classical translation,...
53) The Satires
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In this, the fourth volume of this series, we hear the poetry in which Byron began to make his mark on the world. Though his major breakthrough with Childe Harold is yet to come, his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was a definite hit in its time, establishing Byron as a known poet and ensuring that his reputation as a literary bad-boy was off to a good start.
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was his first major satire and one of his most effective;...
54) Early Poems
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As in the first two volumes of this series, our interest in these poems is not so much the poetry itself as the promise of what is to come. In these poems, mostly written in the years just before Byron left England to tour in Europe, it is fascinating to see how his power as a poet is constantly growing and to see how his enormously romantic heart and soul goes about fashioning itself. He is on the brink of the experiences that will lead to his major...
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This is the book that made Lord Byron (George Gordon) famous. He was a published and a known poet, but until this book took the English-speaking world by storm in 1812, he was not a famous poet.
Byron was, however, a celebrity. As an aristocrat whose personal life was considered shockingly scandalous - and even today would be good stuff for celebrity gossip magazines - his name was known. His previous work was received out of a mixture of literary...
56) Don Juan
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Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Don Juan es un poema satírico creado por Lord Byron, basado en la leyenda de Don Juan de origen español cuya pasión le hace desafiar leyes humanas y divinas. A lo largo de los siglos muchos han sido los autores, como Byron, Molière o Zorrilla, Azorín o Alejandro Dumas que han escrito sobre el personaje, incluyendo una ópera de Mozart, Don Giovanni, así como numerosas adaptaciones y referencias en el cine o...
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Today Byron is regarded as the ultimate romantic – a rebel, a Casanova and a man of intense, brooding passion. He was the most famous literary man of his time, and his poetry, endlessly witty and often insightful, was immensely popular and hugely influential. From the delicate romanticism of She Walks in Beauty to the evocative reflections of So We'll Go No More a Roving, Byron's poems were unrivalled in their power and potency. Lesser-known poems...
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With Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, cantos III and IV, Byron comes to the high point of his work and to clear and definite mastery of his art as a poet. Though he himself doubts his powers - he says his visions no longer swim so palpably before his eyes as once they did - his visions are far more palpable to us, expressed as they are with the full depth of his romantic and passionate feelings. He continues the device of the journey of the fictional Harold,...
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The Contexts Collection puts moments from literary history into amber. Without a Summer is a time capsule of a moment in 1816, when Mary Shelley wrote her masterpiece, Frankenstein or: The Modern Prometheus. Western Europe was in a volcanic winter caused by successive eruptions in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) that had lowered the global temperature 1 degree Fahrenheit--enough to cause the Year Without a Summer. Crops died,...
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Around two hundred years ago the famous writer Lord Byron rented the mansion known as the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva. Accompanying Byron, among others, was the 23-year-old poet Percy Shelley, his mistress, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, and Byron's physician John William Polidori. The summer would be forever known as the 'Lost Summer of 1816'. For three days they were shut up in the Villa due to cold and stormy weather, which would serve as the backdrop...