Lord ByronSeries Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts. TWAYNES UNITED STATES AUTHORS, ENGLISH AUTHORS, and WORLD AUTHORS Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writers work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading the Authors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives. Each volume features: a critical, interpretive study and explication of the authors works; a brief biography of the author; an accessible chronology outlining the life, work, and relevant historical background of the author; aids for further study -- complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography, and an index; and a readable style presented in a manageable length. |
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Shortly after Byron's birth , the profligate captain abandoned his stout , plain , irascible wife , whose fortune he had squandered just as he had his previous wife's . Mrs. Byron returned to Scotland , where she rented lodgings in ...
Parisina presents a domestic and dynastic tragedy from fifteenth - century Ferrara , where Azo Prince of Este ( Byron's version of Niccolò III ) discovers the adultery of his second wife , Parisina , and his illegitimate son Hugo and ...
... enriched himself until he felt inclined to come home with his ill - gotten gains , passed off as the profits of “ a true Turkey - merchant ” as he reclaims “ [ h ] is wife , religion , house , and Christian name ” ( 4 : 159 ) .