Yareah Magazine

 Patricia V. Davis

Byron: Life and Legend, by Fiona MacCarthy
Many of us are familiar with the works of Lord Byron and that according to Lady Charlotte Lamb, he was, “mad, bad and dangerous to know.”  But, what might not be as well known, is that Byron died of fever fighting at Messolonghi on the side of the Greeks against the Turks, during the Greek War of Independence.  And before his brave death, he vilified and cursed the British Lord Elgin for his theft of the marbles from the Parthenon, in the epic poem, “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage“. While biographies of Byron have been written endlessly since his death in 1824 at age 36, author Fiona MacCarthy's absorbing, insightful study of him is distinguishable because it doesn’t fawn over Byron's legend, but it is still keenly aware that the poet’s hypnotic persona and outrageously liberal ideals for his time had an extraordinary resonance throughout the world of art and literature.

Muchos de nosotros estamos familiarizados con los trabajos de Lord Byron y de acuerdo con Lady Charlotte Lamb era “loco, malo y peligroso de conocer”. Pero, lo que no se conoce tanto, es que Byron murió de fiebres luchando en Messolonghi a favor de la independencia Griega y en contra de los Turcos. Tampoco que antes de su heroica muerte, vilipendió e injurió al británico Lord Elgin por el robo de los mármoles del Partenón en el poema épico “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”. Un sin fin de biografías sobre Byron se han escrito desde su muerte en 1824, a la edad de 36 años pero el exhaustivo estudio de Fiona MacCarthy es especial porque no se centra en la leyenda de Byron sino en su hipnótica personalidad y avanzadas ideas liberales para su época, las que tuvieron una extraordinaria resonancia en todo el mundo del arte y la literatura.

Read more:http://englishhistory.net/byron.html 

Patricia V. Davis is founder and editor-in-chief of the non-partisan Harlots' Sauce Radio  e-

Patricia blogs and writes on a variety of subjects, and her essays, satires, social and political commentaries, have appeared in various magazines nationally and internationally. From 1995 - 2002, Patricia lived in Athens, Greece, where she was appointed the exclusive representative of Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey for Scholastic International, publishers of children’s books and educational materials. She currently resides in Northern California, and is hard at work on her latest manuscript.

Author website:                   http://www.patriciavdavis.com

E-magazine and podcast:   http://www.harlotssauce.com 

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