title: Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals (Belknap Press)
author: Lord George Gordon Byron
description: Marchand's new edition of Byron's letters and diaries is a delight to read. (<i>New York Review of Books</i>)<br /><br />Byron's sinewy, funny, electrifying letters are emergency bulletins from a man operating, more often than not, on the extreme edege of despair and disgrace...We begin to read these letters as speedily as he must have written them, held by his scorn, his dissatisfaction with himself and his blazing energy. He is fiercely alive. (<i>Newsweek</i>)<br /><br />Byron is one of the most versatile and provocative of our letter writers. More perphaps than any other, he has left us a collection of writtings that constitute a brilliant and incisive portrait of their author. (<i>Times Literary Supplement</i>)<br /><br />Byron was at all times a performer, and his best performance, we have usually agreed, is Don Juan, the most entertaining long poem in English. We may have to think again. Leslie A. Marchand's new edition of the letters and journals suggests Byron's prose may be his strongest work. These letters play on our nerves and get under our skin in a contemporary way. (Walter Demons <i>Newsweek</i>)<br /><br />Byron's letters are among the most spirited in the English language, and are irresistible...Byron is a good letter writer because whether he is scoffing, arguing, or even conducting his business affairs, he has a half-laughing eye on his correspondent; although he can turn icily formal, he has mainly a talking style of worldly elegance. (<i>New Yorker</i>)<br /><br />Passionate, worldly, businesslike, scurrilous, gossipy, tender, despondent--[the letters] exude charm and wayward intelligence, and above all the rippling energy with which this prototype of the Romantic hero lived and worked...In their candor, wit, and perceptiveness, they serve him better than any biographer. (<i>Harper's</i>)
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  # Life of Lord Byron, Vol. IV
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Thomas Moore
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
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  NOTICES OF THE LIFE OF LORD BYRON.
  
  
    
  LETTER 272. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 273. TO MR. MOORE.
  
  
    
  LETTER 274. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 276. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 277. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 278. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 279. TO MR. MOORE.
  
  
    
  LETTER 280. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 281. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 282. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 283. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 284. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 285. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 286. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 287. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 288. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 289. TO MR. MOORE.
  
  
    
  LETTER 290. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 291. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 292. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 293. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 294. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 295. TO MR. MURRAY.
  
  
    
  LETTER 296. TO MR. HOPPNER.
  
  
    
  LETTER 297. TO MR. M