6/21/2023 0 Comments Byron by Phyllis Grosskurth![]() ![]() Edgar Hoover" by Richard Gid Powers (Free Press). The first of those was "Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. How can they be so dismissive of the obvious: Readers want to know which version of a life to choose, because most readers' lives are too crammed to read multiple versions. Shame on Eisler, and shame on Knopf, in general one of the best publishers in this country or any other country. ![]() The Grosskurth biography is not even listed in Eisler's bibliography. Unless I missed something, there is no reference to Grosskurth's research in Eisler's massive book. After all, in the minds of Byron students, the Grosskurth biography is still fresh. Surely, I thought, Eisler will be considerate enough to explain how her Byron differs from Grosskurth's Byron. I had debated purchasing it upon its publication in 1997, but passed when I found no significant explanation of how it advanced the version of Byron's life told by Leslie A. "Byron: The Flawed Angel," by Phyllis Grosskurth, appeared from Houghton Mifflin. First I searched the index and the actual text for a reference to a major biography of Byron published just two years ago. ![]()
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