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WILL PODMORE recommends a readable introduction to the life of Byron, in his own words
Byron by Thomas Phillips, 1813
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MARY CONWAY recommends an early Shakespearean tragedy that feels so contemporary that it mirrors our daily news
A ghost story by Mexican Ave Barrera, a Surrealist poetry collection by Peruvian Cesar Moro, and a manifesto-poem on women’s labour and capitalist havoc by Peruvian Valeria Roman Marroquin
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity
MARY CONWAY is frustrated by a new play that loses its drama amid the moral dilemma of re-settling children in the aftermath of WWII
Acclaimed as a masterpiece when it premiered, this study of story-telling in an Irish pub more than lives up to expectations, says MARY CONWAY
SYLVIA HIKINS relishes a comedy that dives deep into Liverpool’s divided loyalties
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters
Andrew Stauffer
Cambridge University Press, £25
THIS is a fine introduction to the great poet, which should stimulate the reader to read or reread the poems. Its author, Professor Andrew Stauffer, is chair of the Department of English at the University of Virginia, and president of the Byron Society of America.
It is not a full biography; for this, one should turn to Leslie Marchand’s Byron: a biography or to Fiona MacCarthy’s more recent Byron: life and legend.
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