Power Search
Low Price Guarantee
We Take School POs
Byron and Hobby-O: Lord Byronâ (Tm)S Relationship with John CAM Hobhouse
Contributor(s): Cochran, Peter (Author)

View larger image

 ISBN: 1443821497     ISBN-13: 9781443821490
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
OUR PRICE: $79.75  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: July 2010
Qty:
Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry
Dewey: 821.7
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.8" W x 8.2" L (1.36 lbs) 345 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Byron and Hobby-O is about the relationship between Byron and his supposed best friend, John Cam Hobhouse. It is the first full-length biographical study of Hobhouse in over fifty years, and is much franker and more intimate than anything preceding. It shows how, while the two men were initially collaborators and rivals, Byron rapidly outstretched Hobhouse in poetry, while Hobhouse, in the longer term, outstretched Byron in politics. It shows how long acquaintance with the elusive and chameleonic Byron turned Hobhouse into a canter and humbug of the kind Byron hated, and concludes with an account of the first English invasion of Afghanistan, which Hobhouse initiated. The book is based in part on long study of Hobhouse's diary, much of which Peter Cochran has edited.
 
Customer ReviewsSubmit your own review
 
To tell a friend about this book, you must Sign In First!