{"product_id":"a-guide-to-byrons-verse-in-fifty-poems-hardcover","title":"A Guide to Byron's Verse in Fifty Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Lansdown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book extends our understanding of Lord Byron's poetry--as opposed to his life and legend--by offering fifty very short discussions of his best poems, be they lyrics, four cantos of poetic travelogue in \u003cem\u003eChilde Harold's Pilgrimage, \u003c\/em\u003e narrative poems set in the Middle East and elsewhere, dramas (neoclassical, Faustian, or Biblical), satires, love songs, or the seventeen cantos of his comic epic, \u003cem\u003eDon Juan\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe coverage is wide, from the very beginning of Byron's career in Nottinghamshire to its very end in Greece, and the approach is accessible, giving readers something to think about rather than telling them what to think, without 'explaining poems away'. The focus is sometimes biographical, sometimes historical, sometimes generic, sometimes formalist, but always the texts are chosen on the basis of their quality, first and foremost. The book is designed to be dipped into, or read from cover to cover, as the reader prefers--and, of course, the choice of Byron's fifty best things will itself promote discussion of a poet who deserves to stand just behind Shakespeare alongside Chaucer, Milton, Pope, and Wordsworth as one of the central figures in English verse.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Lansdown, \u003cem\u003eAdjunct Professor of English, University of Tasmania\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard Lansdown taught at James Cook University in Cairns for twenty years, after stints in Finland and New South Wales, before taking up the chair in Modern English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen in 2017. He retired in 2022 and is now connected to the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania in Hobart.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 9.31 x 6.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43339199021145,"sku":"9780198954323","price":66.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/2oWuqjqUE59780198954323.webp?v=1779437096","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/products\/a-guide-to-byrons-verse-in-fifty-poems-hardcover","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}