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Tag Archives: Lord Byron
“Those evils that inflame the imagination and make the heart sick, ought not to leave the head cool.” — William Hazlitt
Self-portrait by William Hazlitt, who was born on this day in 1778. “We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves, and have neither thoughts nor feelings to impart to them. Give a man a topic in … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Lamb, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, William Wordsworth
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The Books: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry: Selected Poetry And Prose Of Shelley This is a nice comprehensive volume. I have a second-hand copy, and it includes all of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s most famous poems, as well as excerpts from Prometheus Bound and … Continue reading
Longing
Wonderful man! I long to get drunk with him. — Lord Byron on Sir Walter Scott, journal entry, Jan. 5, 1782
Mary Shelley: “What terrified me will terrify others.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her husband Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Lord Byron’s physician Dr. John Polidori sat around one rainy summer night in 1816- they were neighbors in Switzerland – I mean, damn, I want to be at one of … Continue reading
LM Montgomery on Lord Byron
“Don’t like the man as well as I like his poetry — for I do like Byron’s poetry very much. It thrills some chords in my being as no other poet can do. Byron is out of fashion — but … Continue reading