The Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786707364 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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A RARE FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT It has been a favorite pastime of academic biographers of both Shelley and Byron to deride Trelawny. This should suprise nobody. To begin with, with few exceptions, one of the primary qualifications of being a full-fledged academic is delight in derision, especially in derision of those who have firsthand knowledge of the subjects they have spent hours in the stacks on University libraries to gain, perhaps, one mote of additional information.-The common criticism of Trelawny is that he was "naive"-By this. A Customer said The Lives and Deaths of Shelley and Byron. If you're interested in the life of Edward John Trelawny, you'll have to look elsewhere. Suffice it to say that Tre' (as his friends knew him) was a privateer, a scoundrel, a lover of poetry, a freedom-fighter and a loyal friend of the most prolific literary talents of the romantic period. 'The Last Days of Shelley and Byron' is an account, not of Trelawny's extraordinary life & adventures, but of the two men that helped make that life so extraordinary. In his own words, he tells of the secret lives of By. Neither Accurate nor Fair, But Wonderful Anyway Robert Archambeau Edward Trelawney is unfair, unreliable, and completely delightful. He aspired to cut something of a Byronic figure himself, so when he writes of Byron he seeks to cut his rival down to size. To hear Trelawney tell it, Byron is a lousy swimmer, an ingrate, ungenerous, and constantly bested by Trelawney himself. Shelley, in contrast, is saintly, unworldly, a charming innocent lost in childish wonder and dreaminess. If neither portrait is entirely accurate, both are sharply drawn, and do capture elements of
Vividly recalled and brilliantly recorded, Edward Trelawney's intimate, affecting account of Shelley and Byron at the peak of their poetic powers takes these two magnetic personalities out of the shadows of their exile and into the light of his acute memory. From 1821, at Pisa, when Trelawney fell into the literary circle of the impulsive Shelley and charismatic Byron, this three-year tale follows both poets to their early, untimely ends.