Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington

By:

Marguerite Blessington

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

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When the Countess of Blessington (1789–1849) met the poet Lord Byron (1788–1824) in Genoa in 1823 she noted that 'the impression of the first few minutes disappointed me'. Despite this precarious start, they struck up a friendship and met nearly every day for two months. Byron had been living in the Italian port city since the previous autumn and Blessington and her family had arrived in April 1823. Her account of their conversations was not published until 1834, a decade after Byron's death. Blessington expresses candid opinions about the poet in this work, writing that Byron 'is a strange mélange of good and evil, the predominancy of either depending wholly on the humour he may happen to be in'. Through her frankness, the author - herself a well-known writer who hosted a distinguished literary salon - also reveals much about herself and the literary world she and Byron inhabited.

Release date NZ

October 27th, 2011

Author

Marguerite Blessington

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

1 Plates, black and white

Pages

420

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

Dimensions

140x216x24

ISBN-13

9781108033930

Product ID

11493527

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