The vivid and dramatic life of Lady Caroline Lamb , whose love affair with the poet Lord Byron scandalised British society, by one of the UK's best-loved historians
After a childhood marked by loss and grief, Hölderlin studied theology in the illustrious company of Hegel and Schelling, before concentrating on poetry and writing his most famous work, Hyperion. But, afflicted by the pressures of life and a doomed love affair, he gradually went mad, and spent the ...