TY - BOOK N2 - To the nineteenth-century reader, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was the archetype of the Romantic literary hero, a figure admired and emulated as much for the revolutionary panache with which he lived his life as the brio and allure of his verse. Our century has seen him more clearly as a poet whose intellectual toughness, satiric gifts, and utter inability to be boring have made him one of the great comic spirits in our literature. AB - To the nineteenth-century reader, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was the archetype of the Romantic literary hero, a figure admired and emulated as much for the revolutionary panache with which he lived his life as the brio and allure of his verse. Our century has seen him more clearly as a poet whose intellectual toughness, satiric gifts, and utter inability to be boring have made him one of the great comic spirits in our literature. T1 - Poems / DA - 1994. CY - New York : AU - Byron, George Gordon Byron, AU - Washington, Peter. CN - PR4353 CN - PR4353 PB - A.A. Knopf : PB - Distributed by Random House, PP - New York : PY - 1994. N1 - Cover title: Byron. N1 - Includes index. ID - 313850 SN - 9780679436300 (alk. paper) SN - 0679436308 (alk. paper) TI - Poems / LK - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random052/95105108.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random052/95105108.html ER -