The most comprehensive coverage to date of Byron's place within the English poetic tradition, this landmark study boasts a cast of the most eminent individuals

For Byron, poetic achievement was always relative. Writing meant dwelling in an echo chamber of other voices that enriched and contextualised what he had to say

"The country of his birth proves difficult to get rid of, as a place 'where men are proud to be' and 'Not without cause'. Nonchalance (and sexual mischief) ming

Poet, celebrity, and revolutionary, Lord (George Gordon) Byron was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the first half of the nineteenth cen