Lord Byron's Doctor by West
Lord Byron's Doctor is one Polidori, the travelling companion, confidante and unwilling chronicler of George Gordon, Lord Byron. It is the year 1816 and Byron, driven out of England by scandalous allegations of incest with his sister, undertakes a debauched European Grande Tour to meet up with the Percy and Mary Shelly in Geneva. From austere Dutch towns to the mountains of Switzerland, the poet's most obsessive thoughts are faithfully recorderd by the awed and repulsed Polidori. Paul West's literary and historical invention of the obscure Italian doctor produces a carnal, extravangant story of Gothic depravity, of poetic genius and the sometimes diabolical personality behind it.-
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A grand tour sparked by an irresistible forceTime "A powerful, book, a disturbing and memorable evocation of the pernicious consequences that Byronism could have...Mr. West imagines a complex character roiling with envy, spite, fury, and, most of all, the desire to be Lord Byron..." The New York Times "A wholly successful recreation of that crucial year in literary history when Romantic yearnings confronted the darker recesses of the unconscious, wreaking havoc in the personal lives of their creators, but also giving birth to poetry and monsters that haunt us still." The Review of Contemporary Fiction
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781852422530 |
| ISBN 10 | 185242253X |
| Title | Lord Byron's Doctor |
| Author | West |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1992-04-15 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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