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050 00 $aPR4384$b.M56 1998
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100 1 $aMinta, Stephen.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77012423
245 10 $aOn a voiceless shore :$bByron in Greece /$cStephen Minta.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bH. Holt,$c1998.
300 $a292 pages :$bmap ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [284]-285) and index.
520 $aIn April 1824, at the age of thirty-six, George Gordon, sixth Lord Byron, died in a wretched Greek town while fighting for Greece in its struggle for independence. What was it that took this man - brilliant poet, as even his fiercest detractors admitted, rakehell, and gadabout - to so commit his life and his soul to a struggle so far from his native shores?
520 8 $aFor many of Byron's biographers, Greece represents a mere passage, episodes worthy of mention but empty of meaning. For Stephen Minta, himself a lover of the complexities of this country, Greece - emotionally, physically, creatively - features hugely in any attempt to understand Byron.
520 8 $a"If I am a poet," Byron wrote, "the air of Greece has made me one." Perhaps unique among his generation, Byron loved Greece the way he found it - a land of sensations, of sun and sea and light, but also a place of irritations, of frustration, duplicity, and cruelty. If his fellow countrymen saw in Greece only antiquities, monuments reinforcing a classical education, Byron saw life in all its aspects: grief and despair as well as delight and sensuality.
520 8 $aThe people of Greece, in all their variety, drew him in, and eventually he made their cause his own. What began as a tourist's expedition grew into a love affair compelling enough to enlist his fortune - and his life.
600 10 $aByron, George Gordon Byron,$cBaron,$d1788-1824$xTravel$zGreece.
650 0 $aBritish$xTravel$zGreece$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aPoets, English$y19th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108948
651 0 $aGreece$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057050
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR4384$i.M56 1998