Byron: A Life in Ten Letters
A rounded portrait, venereal scars and all, of one of the prime movers of the Romantic movement ... Stauffer’s book is a splendid thing, colourful and busy with incident, but always thoughtful and astute in its judgments.
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Ingenious ... Successive chapters, like vivid lantern slides, illuminate the whole Byronic landscape ... It’s an oft-told story, but this version is sublime ... This devilishly readable book brings Regency England and Napoleonic Europe to howling life and pulls its disgraceful but irresistible subject into dazzling focus.
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Its debt to existing biographies is large, but its mosaic structure deftly deals with Byron’s evolutions ... Paradoxically scholarly and entertaining.
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