Word: byron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legendary gallant of dissolute proclivities, whose story found currency in many European literatures before Byron's 19th Century lady-killer appeared. His Spanish debut...
...PILGRIM OF ETERNITY. BYRON - A CONFLICT. John Drinkwater. Doran ($5). The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame...
Shelley's lines and a single sentence from the book explain Dr. Drinkwater's selection of a title: "It is the conflict of Byron, the essential poet, with this other Byron begotten by society upon his weaknesses, that is really the leitmotif of his story...
...opening the book one's interest is all in Drinkwater and one closes it with a keenly reawakened interest in Byron. Byron's latest biographer is not an apologist for his life: degraded profligacy he denies, all else admits. But the ultimate verity is, that in 16 years, having produced 80,000 lines of poetry, "taking all tilings into consideration, variety of readers, caprices of fashion and extent of appeal both as to classes and nationalities, Byron is, next to Shakespeare, the most famous English poet...
...disastrously, roamed Europe, met Shelley and Byron, recovered and cremated the former's body off Leghorn (it was he who snatched Shelley's heart from the pyre and buried it in Rome), fought beside Byron in Greece (it was he who investigated the dead Byron's feet and spread the lie about a cloven hoof), married a Greek chieftain's sister, suffered terrible wounds, corresponded devotedly with Mary Shelley. He later wrote Recollections of the Last Days of Byron and Shelley, an invaluable document. He visited the U. S., swimming Niagara between the rapids...