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...MARCHESA LOIS ORIGO, who is a young Englishwoman, has already proved her literary skill with a little study of Leopardi which appeared last year. In this book she undertakes the study of one episode in the life of another Romantic poet, Byron, whom contemporaries regarded as the chief of all. To this day he enjoys a greater reputation on the Continent than even Wordsworth, as Senor de Madariaga was once gracious enough to remind...
Allegra, who is the subject of this little book, was the daughter of Lord Byron by Jane Clairmont (generally talled Claire), and she was born out of wedlock. She lived to be only five years old, but her life touched the lives of such interesting people as the Shelleys--Shelley appears to have been generally more solicitous for the child's welfare than Byron was. "And did you see Shelley plain?" Allegra did many times. Her death brought genuine grief to Byron, who loved her as the image of himself, after the manner of so many egoistic parents. The Marshesa...
What is the reader to decide about Allegra and Byron, now that moralistic criticism is out of fashion? One is always at loss somehow in endeavoring to avoid becoming the Pharisee and declaring self-righteously, "There, but for the grace of God, go I." For the Romantics were good poets but very unlovely men, and Byron was the most unmanageable of the lot. Despite his years at Harrow and at Cambridge, Byron never quite learned what was cricket and what was not. If many of his acts had been committed by anyone other than a poet, that person would long...
...most versatile American scholars, he has written poetry, plays, brochures, a bibliography of Byron's works, a biography of Moses Colt Tyler, and a study of American and French Culture (1750-1848). He has also translated Heine's "The North Sen" and edited the Poems of Edgar Allen Poe and Plays of the Restoration and the 18th Century. At present he holds a Guggenheim Fellowship to do research work for a biography of Tom Moore...
...Byron's soul was mire...