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Mazeppa : A Poem
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9781528710725
- ISBN-10: 152871072X
- Publisher: Ragged Hand - Read & Co.
- Publish Date: February 2019
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.19 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.25 pounds
- Page Count: 80
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