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Mazeppa: A Poem

Mazeppa: A Poem

Byron, George Gordon, 1788-

Paperback

General Latin American HistoryGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 152871072X
ISBN13: 9781528710725
Publisher: Ragged Hand - Read & Co.
Published: Feb 15 2019
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Bound naked to the back of a wild horse and loosed across the plains, a young man endures a night of terror in one of Byron's most thrilling narrative poems.

Composed in 1819 by the great Romantic poet Lord Byron, this surging verse tale draws on a legend of the Cossack leader Ivan Mazepa (1639 - 1709). In his youth, so the story goes, Mazepa's love affair with a married Polish countess is discovered, and her husband exacts a savage revenge, lashing him to a stallion set free to gallop into the wilderness. Told years later to a weary king after battle, the poem races with the same headlong momentum as its doomed rider, a masterpiece of movement, endurance, and the sublime.

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