Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author by Trelawny, Edward John

Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780940322363)

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Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author by Trelawny, Edward John

Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author

$22.95
Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author by Trelawny, Edward John

Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author

$22.95
Format: Paperback
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In 1822, after having been discharged from the British navy, deserted by his wife, and as good as disowned by his father, the thirty-two year old Edward John Trelawny set off for Italy to make the acquaintance of his hero, Lord Byron. "I have met today the personification of my Corsair," Byron wrote in a letter. "He sleeps with the poem under his pillow, and all his past adventures and present manners aim at this personification." But though Byron enjoyed the company of his admirer, and was eventually to embark with him on his ill-fated final expedition to aid in the War of Greek Independence, he had grown guarded and ironical with age, and the perfect meeting of minds that Trelawny had envisioned was not to be. Shelley, however, enchanted him. In the months before his death at sea, he and Trelawny were frequent companions, and the young poet emerges from these pages in all his splendid carelessness and otherworldly concentration.

Author: Edward John Trelawny
ISBN-10: 0940322366
ISBN-13: 9780940322363
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2000
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.01w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2001 pg. 192
By Edward John Trelawny
By Edward John Trelawny
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Edward John Trelawny (1792-1881) was born into a well-established family from Cornwall. He passed a miserable childhood, and at the age of thirteen was enrolled by his father in the British navy. Discharged without a commission after a decade, Trelawny found his way to Italy, where he became part of the circle of expatriates around Byron and Shelley. He fought in the Greek War of Independence, during which he survived an assassination attempt, and wrote a notoriously unreliable but enormously successful autobiography, Adventures of a Younger Son, as well as his celebrated reminiscences of Shelley and Byron. Trelawny is buried beside Shelley in the English Cemetery in Rome.

Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean.

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