Nicholas Gayle was the Head of Classics at Exmouth Community College before becoming seduced by the poetry of Lord Byron and changing direction in life. He is the author of Byron and the Best of Poets (2016), the only full study of Byron”s engagement with the work and thought of Alexander Pope, described by Pat Rogers as likely to be “the standard treatment of the topic for a long time to come”, as well as four essays published in The Byron Journal in recent years. He is a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron.
4 Ebooks by Nicholas Gayle
Nicholas Gayle: Byron and the Best of Poets
Byron was a man of many passions, always fiercely held and defended, but his intense devotion to the poetry of Alexander Pope seemed to characterise a man standing a little to the left of the …
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€96.78
Nicholas Gayle: Byron and the Sea-Green Isle
This study of Byron’s last complete long poem, the comparatively neglected The Island, is the first to devote a whole book to the examination, contextualization and motivation of both the poetry and …
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€117.73
Nicholas Gayle: Pope, the Odyssey and the Ontology of Language
This unique study examines the interface between contemporary philosophy and literature through Alexander Pope’s majestic translation of the Odyssey of Homer. Employing the lens supplied by the …
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€117.75
Nicholas Gayle: Conrad and the Being of the World
Why is it that many readers sense in Joseph Conrad’s universe something opaque and withdrawn, a suggestive feeling of something lying behind his richly textured prose that is possibly momentous, …
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€105.87
