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    Hebrew Melodies and Other Poems: Poetry of Lord Byron
    Hebrew Melodies and Other Poems: Poetry of Lord Byron
    Hebrew Melodies and Other Poems: Poetry of Lord Byron
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    Hebrew Melodies and Other Poems: Poetry of Lord Byron

    Written by Lord Byron

    Narrated by Robert Bethune

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    About this audiobook

    This volume of Lord Byron’s poetry contains four sets of his poems, starting with his famous book of poetry, Hebrew Melodies, and continuing with the Poems of the Separation, poetry he wrote in the period 1816-1823, his Jeux d’Esprit, and a group of poems written in homage to the great poets of Italy.

    Hebrew Melodies is a collection of lyrics Byron wrote to be set to music, as indeed they were, by a composer named Isaac Nathan. Byron wrote that the set was inspired by Jewish sacred music, but he does not seem to have taken that altogether seriously, as three of the set are simply love songs with no sacred aspect to them whatsoever. One of those, She Walks in Beauty, is very justly one of Byron's most famous poems.

    A Freshwater Seas production.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFreshwater Seas
    Release dateDec 2, 2010
    ISBN9781933311708
    Hebrew Melodies and Other Poems: Poetry of Lord Byron
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    Lord Byron

    Lord Byron was an English poet and the most infamous of the English Romantics, glorified for his immoderate ways in both love and money. Benefitting from a privileged upbringing, Byron published the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage upon his return from his Grand Tour in 1811, and the poem was received with such acclaim that he became the focus of a public mania. Following the dissolution of his short-lived marriage in 1816, Byron left England amid rumours of infidelity, sodomy, and incest. In self-imposed exile in Italy Byron completed Childe Harold and Don Juan. He also took a great interest in Armenian culture, writing of the oppression of the Armenian people under Ottoman rule; and in 1823, he aided Greece in its quest for independence from Turkey by fitting out the Greek navy at his own expense. Two centuries of references to, and depictions of Byron in literature, music, and film began even before his death in 1824.

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