The Importance of Humor in Byron's Writings

I used to always think Shakespeare would have been this amazing novelist if the novel had been a form for him to write in because of his insight into humanity. Byron, on the one hand, when you started talking about him earlier, I was thinking, oh, it's too bad he never wrote a novel. But he had such a marvelous facility. We would lose something without that the sort of bounce of his verse. A rhyming verse. Yeah. He's a genius. And famously, after his death, they got together in his publisher's room and under pressure from the Lady Byron's representatives and from his rather starchy friend, Hobhouse, burned the thing in the great, famous