{"product_id":"byron-in-love-9781474614443b","title":"Byron in Love","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eByron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel; imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his notorious flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him from the particular to the universal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEverything about Lord George Gordon Byron was a paradox - insider and outsider, beautiful and deformed, serious and facetious, profligate but on occasion miserly, and possessed of a fierce intelligence trapped forever in a child's magic and malices. He was also a great poet, but as he reminded us, poetry is a distinct faculty and has little to do with the individual life of its creator.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdna O'Brien's exemplary biography focuses upon the diverse and colorful women in Byron's life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e'O'Brien charts the many loves of the notorious 19th-century poet's reckless life in immediate and candid prose' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Edna O'Brien has always had a gift for writing about affairs of the heart' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There is much to enjoy in this idiosyncratic and highly readable account of the poet whose writing enthralled and whose actions appalled in equal measure' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eIndependent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Weidenfeld \u0026 Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42824332378192,"sku":"9781474614443B","price":7.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781474614443-l.jpg?v=1785896115","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/byron-in-love-9781474614443b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}