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In self-imposed exile from England, Lord Byron entered a tempestuous love affair with Italy, renting palaces, swimming the canals of Venice, treating his loved ones abominably, and writing great poetry the whole time. The two-part "Byron in Italy" concludes the epic tale.
Read MoreAs a young man, the Roman poet Horace ran from battle; when he was older, he turned down a job offer from Augustus Caesar. He refused to write epics, but he gave readers something even better, and it insured his immortality.
Read MoreJoining the innumerable hosts of Byron biographies, a new book looks at the heartthrob poet's brief but legendary sojourn to Geneva
Read MoreThe larger-than-life exploits of Lord Byron drew an erratic and daunting trajectory through the lives of those nearest him. A trilogy of novels attempts to go where so many biographies have gone before.
Read MoreIts early readers found the novel shocking, unfeminine, un-Christian, revolutionary. So why are film adaptations of Jane Eyre so studiously inoffensive?
Read MoreVirginia Woolf imagined the Almighty seeing us coming towards Paradise, books in hand: "We have nothing to give them, they have loved reading." But does reading always bring salvation?
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