Word: byronically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thin, dark-eyed daughter of Lady Bessborough, fell in love with him. Although a great many noble ladies felt the same passion, "Lady Caro," who was also affectionately called "Ariel," "Savage," & "Squirrel," outdid them all. She disguised herself as a page in order to get into Byron's rooms, waited in the street while he attended parties to which she had not been invited, tried to stab herself when he spoke crossly to her, forged his handwriting to get his picture from his publisher. Driven to distraction by her, Byron found companionship with her mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne...
...root of Peter Quennell's analysis is that Byron was bisexual, a theory not developed in Frances Winwar's less minute study. Apparently with careful design, Byron began spreading stories about himself when his fortunes were highest. He even confided in scatter-brained Lady Caroline, after she had become his virulent enemy. Prevented from publicly proclaiming his love for his sister, he married, choosing as his wife a prim, exact intellectual whom he did not love and whose highbrow affectations amused him and his friends. He took his bride to his sister's home, tormenting her with...
...Byron: The Years of Fame ends with Byron's disgrace and exile, makes the poet seem almost a weary old man by that time. The Romantic Rebels, on the other hand, makes it clear that the experiences of Keats and Shelley were only a little less sensational, that most of the figures in the smoky dramas of genius were scarcely mature. Byron was 26 at the time of his disgrace. His sister was 33, Lady Caroline 31, his wife only 24. Shelley was 22 when he abandoned his 19-year-old bride, fled to France with two girls, aged...
...rungs covered with ice! Winter is showing his sharpest teeth. The Tower at this moment is no picnic. Another log, ye merry hag. And fetch the Vagabond's cloak! We'll bear this through as in many winters past. Freedom! Freedom! Isn't that what George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron died for? Another log, merry hag! My fingers are a cold...
...Byron was no closet theorist. And in Don Juan, as when he fought bodily for the freedom of Greece, he turns persistently for satire on the hypocrisies of the society, politics and literature of his time. Don Juan is not great poetry. "It is...meant to be a little quietly facetious upon everything...a playful satire, with as little poetry as could be helped." But the Vagabond likes it: "...when the old world grows dull, And we are sick of its hack sounds and sights..." 'tis good to turn to tales of adventure and the like. 'Tis good...