Byron And Bob

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BYRON AND BOB by Peter Cochran will be launched on August 10th!

This much loved analysis of the torrid relationship between Lord Byron and Robert Southey will be published in a student edition on May 10th. Re-edited and with a foreword by Professor John Gardner, this edition is designed for the newcomer to Byron as well as the hardened Byronista.

We believe in Peter's aspirations to make Byronic information available to as wide an audience as possible. To this end, the paperback and ebook versions of this edition will be produced at the minimum possible cost (unlike the usual scholarly overpriced publications). The hardback edition will be available with a minor overhead that will contribute to editing and marketing further works by Bee Orchid Press.

Extract

They were made for one another. Such a relationship, between two perfect complements, could only exist in a universe where "there's a destiny that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will."

Southey was an obssessive monogamist, to the point where his wife became depressed and went mad: Byron loved anyone and anything that was warm and moved, if he thought it or they loved him.

Southey was a cat-person: Byron a dog-person. Southey was a good father: Byron an indifferent one. Southey was a professional man of letters: Byron despised professional men of letters, and longed to find a focus for his life's work elsewhere. Southey lived most of his life in the provinces, and his excursions abroad were for holidays only: Byron was a serial cosmopolite.

Blurb

In Memorium

Peter Cochran was a titanic figure in Byron Scholarship. This edition has been timed, by luck and little judgment, to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Peter's passing.