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...view is very different from that of a moralist. Byron's power was in his personality. He was born into an evil inheritance. His father was Mad Jack of the Guards. His mother, a lioness of a woman, was deserted by her husband, and left with her "lame brat." She was the worst kind of woman to bring up such a child. He succeeded his father as Lord Byron in his eleventh year. In 1803 he met the Mary of his poems, whose marriage with another later saddened his life but inspired his genius...