Bairon in love: Edna O` Bireen

“… A legion of books is written about Byron –
treatises, essays and biographies, –
scientific, documentary, enthusiastic, contradictory,
provocative, obscene, fantastic;
Some extolled him, others trampled him in the mud. ”
Edna O’Brien
The reader of this interesting book gets the opportunity to doubt the fairness of a well -known phrase embedded by A. Pushkin in Mozart’s mouth: “Genius and villainy are two things incompatible.”
We will see the poet’s undoubted genius, the selfless fighter for the freedom of Italy and Greece – and the narcissistic egoist, who corrupts the young man, seduces a permanent sister, indulges in uncontrollable excessiveness and neglects his own daughter.
And all this is one person, the great English poet George Gordon Bairon.
Ada Byron
Frank Frank Stone
Portraits, miniatures, engravings and drawings of that era will complement the narrative and allow you to see the faces of people involved in Byron’s life.
Byron, – …

Author
O’Brien Edna
Editor
Genkin V.
Translator
Iskarova K.
Publisher
Text, 2011
Series
Collection