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, contextualisation and motivation of both the poetry and its poet.

It is much more than just a monograph, however; aside from biographical considerations, it illumines aspects of study that embrace feminism, racial politics and social considerations in relation to Polynesian island society, all of which are contrasted with the loose anarchy of an 18th century group of British mutineers.