BOOKS: Byron

Byron

Described as, "mad, bad and dangerous to know, " George Gordon Byron aka "Lord Byron" was the first modern-style celebrity; a poet, an aristocrat, an aesthete and a dandy with a spectacular short life that dazzled an era. In "Byron Child of Passion, Fool of Pain", Benita Eisler provides a comprehensive and well documented account of Byron's life. Eisler, using newly discovered material captures the passion, ego, and despair that consumed Byron. He was renowned for his genius and admired for his beauty rising to instant fame with the publication, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Byron the creator of the "Byronic Hero" which he personified was lover of both men and women, traveler and adventurer and poet whose brilliance was exceeded by few. Eisler examines the context of his poetry and celebrity shattering the romantic myths without denigrating the Byron's accomplishments.