Heaven And Earth, A Mystery...

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Heaven And Earth, A Mystery

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.)

Fiction; General; Fiction / General; Literary Criticism / Poetry

Genres: Plays

76 pages, Paperback

First published October 26, 2012

About the author

George Gordon Byron (invariably known as Lord Byron), later Noel, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale FRS was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond.

Byron's notabilty rests not only on his writings but also on his life, which featured upper-class living, numerous love affairs, debts, and separation. He was notably described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". Byron served as a regional leader of Italy's revolutionary organization, the Carbonari, in its struggle against Austria. He later travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died from a fever contracted while in Messolonghi in Greece.

Reviews

[Alex Boyd]

⭐️3.8⭐️

The beauty of Byron’s prose is second I think only to Shakespeare, and in this play as well as his other Genesis-based play “Cain: a Mystery” contain some of the most hauntingly beautiful words I’ve ever read. Here we see an honest struggle with mortality and divine justice as told through the lens of those who were left behind to die in the Great Flood. Scenes of heart wrenching grief, confusion and submission make this play a masterful work of art.

[David Purdy]

This little-known play is a beautifully written gem that represents an earnest and visceral exploration of such themes as unrequited love, sacrificial obedience, and the supremacy of God. With entrancingly poetic language, Lord Byron expands upon a brief passage in the Book of Genesis to consider the emotional complexity that arises at the intersection of God's perfect justice and His perfect love. While "Heaven and Earth" takes a controversial stance on the minor theological point of the identity of the nephilim, the play resounds with sound Biblical teaching that remains unmitigated by the series of emotional tumults with which it is interspersed.

[Esther Markussen]

Honestly a pretty great biblical inversion. The romantic language, makes is rather diffucult to read, and I read it mostly because I couldn't find a short summary anywhere. But it wasn't wasted time, because now I have a far better understanding of the anti-christian discourse in this play. Essentially the story is a lovestory between to women and two angels, who will fall and do against gods will for their love. Another important charecter, but perhaps less relevant for my area of interest, is Jeph, a son of Noah in love with one of the girls Anah, who does not love him back.
what I find the most interesting here, is that the two girls and angels are "rewarded" for defiyng God, by actually escaping the fload, which would otherwise have killed them along with any other human, not on Noahs arc.

[J.C. Pillard]

A piece I read for class. Strangely enough, I needed to read it aloud to really get the story. The language is a bit opaque otherwise.

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