Word: byronical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harrow that Lord Byron prepared for college, and he has commemorated the beauties of the place and his love for it in several poems. A verse from a poem, on the occasion of a visit to Harrow in after years, illustrates somewhat amusingly his life there...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Yesterday's CRIMSON contained an attack upon the English department which seems to me very questionable, not to say unjust. The writer has left no doubt as to what course he attacks; it is, of course, English 8, and the author assailed is Byron. I believe the writer to be in the wrong when he says that too much time is given to rehearsing the petty incidents of an author's life; for what is there that so excites an interest in an author as to obtain a knowledge of his private life, and then to observe...
...writer of the communication evidently forgets to what extent Byron's private life reappears in his writings, and it would be just as wise, then, to crush Byron's name from the list of English men of letters, as to suppress his personal history from the lecture-room. Indeed, as the instructor carefully explained, no more time was expended on the incidents of the private life of Byron than was proportionate to its effects on his writings...
...English literature should be carried on. We do not wish to censure our critic or criticise the ground which he has taken, but in a course which is so given up to independent research and individual work as English VIII, the criticism must be considered as slightly hypercritical. If Byron was a brute, we want to know it just as distinctly as to know whether Wordsworth was after all a wingless angel. Yet, it is true that the rehearsal of personal memories at times grows to be tiresome garrulity. If some golden mean could be found some way by which...
...theme on Byron is required in English 8 for the next lecture...