508 Byron (with David Ellis) | My Last Book with Ariel Lawhon, Susan Meissner, and Kristina McMorris
The History of Literature
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Byron's Poems
I don't think Charles Harold is going to be read much in the future. I would say that I put my money on Don Jewell and then Vision of Judgement and Beto, which is marvelous too. Byron has lots of unpleasant aspects to his character, but he has some very positive ones. His attitude to writing was very complicated. He didn't seem to take it seriously, but I think he did. After all, his first book was called Hours of Idleness. So he had a complicated attitude, well, to have him been born with this fantastic gift for writing.
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