Success

Marilyn Butler

• The Trouble of an Index: Byron’s Letters and Journals, Vol. XII edited by Leslie Marchand
  Murray, 166 pp, £15.00, May 1982, ISBN 0 7195 3885 8
• Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals edited by Leslie Marchand
  Murray, 404 pp, £12.50, October 1982, ISBN 0 7195 3974 9
• Byron by Frederic Raphael
  Thames and Hudson, 224 pp, £8.95, July 1982, ISBN 0 500 01278 4
• Byron’s Political and Cultural Influence in 19th-Century Europe: A Symposium edited by Paul Graham Trueblood
  Macmillan, 210 pp, £15.00, April 1981, ISBN 0 333 29389 4
• Byron and Joyce through Homer by Hermione de Almeida
  Macmillan, 233 pp, £15.00, October 1982, ISBN 0 333 30072 6
• Byron: A Poet Before His Public by Philip Martin
  Cambridge, 253 pp, £18.50, July 1982, ISBN 0 00 521186 7

Byron is one of the first international successes of the literature industry. From the Renaissance on, sculptors and painters could get into the big money in any of the richer economies of Europe; throughout the 18th century, musicians poured out of Germany, Austria and Italy. But writers, because of the language barrier, had to wait for a large leisured readership, as well as for the late 18th-century boom in the printed word, which included among its manifestations the rise of the literary review.