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Paul Wright's detailed introductions place Byron's colourful life and work within their broader social and political contexts, and demonstrate that Byron both fostered and critiqued the notorious 'Byronic myth' of heroic adventure, political action and sexual scandal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foster’s Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56641548386681,"sku":null,"price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0956\/9085\/0681\/files\/IMG-1749.heic?v=1770809232"},{"product_id":"the-collected-poems-of-oscar-wilde","title":"The Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback-New\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexual desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his day, observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. 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Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis extraordinary stamina and a consistent individuality of style and vision made him a survivor, immune to literary fashion. At the start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than it ever did, even in his own lifetime. 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