Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Byron

Byron in Love, by Guy Cunningham, Bookslut, August 2009, review of 'Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life', by Edna O'Brien

Today, we’d dismiss Byron as a bipolar sex addict whose unresolved Oedipal conflict held him in thrall to the father he never knew. --Kathryn Harrison, Oh, Lord, The New York Times, June 12, 2009, review of Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life, by Edna O’Brien

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." --Patrick J. Walsh, Byron's Scottish Essence, by Patrick J. Walsh, review of Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture, by John Clubbe (2005), Modern Age, Spring 2007

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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