Cristian Ignamarca từ La Armenia, Norte de Santander, Colombia

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05/17/2024

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2018-07-19 16:30

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Kim Duẩn

This is an excellent, excellent biography - probably the best I've read on Byron to date. McCarthy manages the task which all too often seems to defeat biographers: balancing a sympathetic analysis of Byron's character with an objectivity which allows her to deal with the less engaging, often contradictory, sides of Byron's character. There is also a sense of freshness about the work, in part because McCarthy has been afforded access to the Murray Archive (the archives of John Murray II, the publisher of most of Byron's works), and has used some papers which have never before come to public attention. The research which the author must have done both in this archive, and in other sources, shines through clearly in the text - it's always erudite, but never pedantic. I particularly liked how McCarthy helped to place Byron in a wider literary and cultural context, both amongst his contemporaries and amongst later authors. The links and influences to such things as the Brontë sisters' Angria juvenilia was interesting, especially since I'd never really considered them in that light before. I do have some slight nitpicks about the book. Although this is a biography and attention is, quite rightly, focused on Byron's life, I did feel as if McCarthy ignored any real attempts at analysis of the poems themselves. There were some quotations, but they felt annoyingly brief. I also felt as if she glossed over the circumstances that surrounded some of Byronmania - she catalogues some of Byron's more intense fans, yes (Caroline Lamb always horrifies me), but I found it hard to get a sense of the Byron-as-public-figure that inspired this mass hysteria. There was also, I thought, the slightest of lapses of consistency of logic in analysing whether Byron was the father of an illegitimate child by a maid-servant of his in his youth, and whether he was the father of Elizabeth Medora by his half-sister Augusta. Despite all this, however, this is still a very well-written book, and the one biography that I would recommend above all others for someone looking to be introduced to the life of Lord Byron

Người đọc Cristian Ignamarca từ La Armenia, Norte de Santander, Colombia

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.