Poets and Pretenders
John Sutherland, 2 April 1987
The Position of the Body
by Richard Stern.
Northwestern, 207 pp., $21.95, November 1986,0 8101 0730 9 Show More
by Richard Stern.
Northwestern, 207 pp., $21.95, November 1986,
The Setting Sun and the Rolling World
by Charles Mungoshi.
Heinemann, 202 pp., £10.95, February 1987,0 434 48166 1 Show More
by Charles Mungoshi.
Heinemann, 202 pp., £10.95, February 1987,
Conversations with Lord Byron on Perversion, 162 Years after his Lordship’s Death
by Amanda Prantera.
Cape, 174 pp., £9.95, March 1987,9780224024235 Show More
by Amanda Prantera.
Cape, 174 pp., £9.95, March 1987,
“... who died in 1811, E.H. Coleridge established beyond doubt that the poems were written in memory of John Edleston, a 15-year-old Trinity choirboy with whom Byron fell in love in October 1805. And Marchand has subsequently fleshed out the episode. Edleston (nicknamed ‘the Cornelian’) was working-class, fair, thin (Byron was at the time monstrously fat), and ... ”