Lord Byron Died, 2003

Tacitda Dean on this edition: "Some years ago, I went to Sounion in Greece to look for Lord Byron's signature, famously carved into one of the columns in the temple there. I couldn't find it. Instead, I photographed these other names, carved into the marble in the copperplate writing style of the vandals of that time. They are evidence of an era of Romantic wanderings, sea voyages and a new affinity with the Classical Age. Somehow it seems fitting that those carved works and numbers should now read as end dates for such a period of incomparable literary brilliance."