Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inestimable value to History. Dr. Johnson might be summoned to tell the true story of Cock Lane. With Banque, Hamlet and Poor Yorick new worlds of Shakespearean lore could be revealed, but perhaps there needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this. The headless Horseman and Byron's last appearance to Sir Walter Scott could be reenacted...
...them on how to hold the soul in leash like a well-trained hound. What then? A hound goes hunting. Of what use is hunting except to exercise the hound?" There lies Mr. Maurois's purpose. That is why he likes Kipling. Carnehan and Dravot have made Disraeli and Byron live again...
Shakespeare was the first of the poets to turn his footsteps in imagination to the stones of Venice. After him a long procession follows, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Browning. One may almost say that the best of the English poets are those who loved Venice best. The delight of Shelley in it was that of Ariel for his island, and Byron's love was not one but several. For those who can go and see, the record of their attachment is alive in Venice today. For those who cannot, Mr. Hersey will lecture on "Venice and the English Poets," illustrated...
...Venice of Shakespeare, Byron, and Browning," (Illustrated with slides), Mr. Hersey, Emerson...
...book of this type, previous acquaintance with the characters treated is bound to influence one's preference. Mr. Bradford's interpretation of Lord Byron as a man who was moved more by the glamor of sin than by sin itself will not seem new or very illuminating to anyone fairly familiar with the life and work of the poet. The portrait of the Borgia, painted against the background of a blood-and-roses Renaissance (that familiar stage-set) deals too casually with the violent contrasts which from constant repitition have lost their original value...