My recollections of Lord Byron : and those of eye-witnesses of his life
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My recollections of Lord Byron : and those of eye-witnesses of his life
（Cambridge library collection, . Literary studies）
Cambridge University Press, 2014
- v. 1 : pbk
- v. 2 : pbk
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Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie : my recollections of Lord Byron, and those of eye-witnesses of his life
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Richard Bentley , 1869
"This edition first published 1869. This digitally printed version 2014"--T.p. verso
"Originally published in French, and anonymously, in 1868"--Back cover
Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781108076050
Description
This two-volume work was originally published in French, and anonymously, in 1868. In 1869, Richard Bentley published an English translation by Hubert E. H. Jerningham, in which he stated that the work 'is the production of the celebrated Countess Guiccioli'. Teresa Guiccioli (1800-73) was nineteen, and married to a much older man, when she first met Byron in Venice. Their subsequent love affair lasted until Byron left for Greece, together with her brother Pietro Gamba, whose account of Byron's last days is also reissued in this series. Anxious to restore Byron's reputation, which she believed to be tainted by a conflation in the public mind between the poet and his more notorious characters, she attempts to refute some of the more scandalous assertions about his life. Volume 1 covers such topics as Byron's childhood, his 'benevolence and kindness', and the 'qualities of his heart and soul'.
Table of Contents
- Introductory sketch of Lord Byron
- 1. Lord Byron and M. de Lamartine
- 2. Portrait of Lord Byron
- 3. French portrait of Lord Byron
- 4. His religious opinions
- 5. His childhood and his youth
- 6. His friendships
- 7. Lord Byron considered as a father, as a brother, and as a son
- 8. Qualities of Lord Byron's heart
- 9. His benevolence and kindness
- 10. Lord Byron's qualities and virtues of soul.
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v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781108076067
Description
This two-volume work was originally published in French, and anonymously, in 1868. In 1869, Richard Bentley published an English translation by Hubert E. H. Jerningham, in which he stated that the work 'is the production of the celebrated Countess Guiccioli'. Teresa Guiccioli (1800-73) was nineteen, and married to a much older man, when she first met Byron in Venice. Their subsequent love affair lasted until Byron left for Greece, together with her brother Pietro Gamba, whose account of Byron's last days is also reissued in this series. Anxious to restore Byron's reputation, which she believed to be tainted by a conflation in the public mind between the poet and his more notorious characters, she attempts to refute some of the more scandalous assertions about his life. Volume 2 continues to describe Byron's qualities: his generosity, courage and modesty, but also his faults, including vanity and misanthropy.
Table of Contents
- 1. Lord Byron's constancy
- 2. His courage and fortitude
- 3. His modesty
- 4. Virtues of his soul
- 5. His generosity elevated into heroism
- 6. His faults
- 7. His irritability
- 8. His mobility
- 9. His misanthropy and sociability
- 10. His pride
- 11. His vanity
- 12. Lord Byron's marriage and its consequences
- 13. His gaiety and melancholy
- 14. His melancholy
- 15. Conscience the chief quality of his soul
- Semi-biography of Byron in Mr Disraeli's Venetia.
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