£38.00
Title: Byron and the Romantics in Switzerland, 1816
Author: Elma Dangerfield
Publisher : Ascent Books
Publication c1978 First Edition
Format: Hardback
Condition: Blue covers which are in a very good condition. The dust jacket is also good with slight curl to top edge. Pages are clean and bright with illustrations throughout.
Book measures: 22cm x 14cm with 93 pages
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Byron and the Romantics in Switzerland, 1816 by Elma Dangerfield.
This vivid account of the famous “passionate” summer of 1816, when Lord Byron and Shelley were living with their mistresses Claire Clairmont and Mary Woolstonecraft on the shores of Lake Geneva, is illustrated by many contemporary prints of the picturesque lakeside villages and châteaux, of the Mont Blanc region and the Bernese Oberland.
Stendhal wrote of the “extraordinary congregation of European opinions” that characterised Geneva society in that unique period. The leading literary personalities of France, Switzerland and Italy, exiles and emigrés, English aristocrats on the Grand Tour – all are brought to life in Elma Dangerfield’s description, based on the letters and journals of Byron and Shelley and others in their circle.
Above all, through this study of a cultural era in microcosm, she provides an illuminating re-creation of the lives of the leading figures in the Romantic Movement at a crucial point in their development.
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