Today, we’d dismiss Byron as a bipolar sex addict whose unresolved Oedipal conflict held him in thrall to the father he never knew.
Byron desired a place of refuge from the dominant secular order of godless science, rising commerce, and material innovation—"Inventions that help man as true/ As shooting them at Waterloo."
Byron: I Love Not Woman the Less, but Man More, review by Judith Shulevitz, New York Times, January 12, 2003
The Byron Complex, by Elizabeth Wasserman, Atlantic Unbound, September 12, 2002
Byron: The Poetry of It All, by Anne Barton, New York Review of Books, December 19, 2002
The Misfortune of Poetry, by Christopher Hitchens. Atlantic Monthly, October 2002
Byron: Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy From Its Beginning in 1816 to the Present Time (1870), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Project Gutenberg
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