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“... not repulsion, but desire.’In 2021 the New Yorker published an interview with Jaeggy by Dylan Byron, who found her ‘impeccably elegant in crisp whites and royal blues, her fine silver hair clipped back in a signature tortoiseshell barrette’. Jaeggy twice complimented Byron on his tie and noted that his red socks ...”

“... the chief gunner, John Bulkeley; the carpenter, John Cummins; and three young midshipmen, John Byron, Alexander Campbell and Isaac Morris. They returned home in rival groups, by different routes, telling conflicting stories of exactly what had happened in the months following the shipwreck – accusing one another of mutiny, murder and betrayal.By the mid ...”

“... the Alps, the spectre of Shelley’s sister-in-law following him, pregnant with his child, Byron stopped at an inn and surrendered his passport; then entered name and address on the printed form, giving his age as ‘a hundred’. When he died, eight years later, still only thirty-six, his heart and brain were accordingly found to be quite used up ...”

“... Of course every poet appoints his own ancestors but that’s one thing if you’re Auden enlisting Byron, another if you’re nobody claiming Auden. Let me present, then (like one of those not quite kosher relations in Jane Austen), my mite of collateral evidence connecting me with Wystan. First, prep school; first cell in that hive ‘whose honey is fear and ...”

“... those they admire, and the heroes whom Chatwin celebrates here, apart from Rock, include Robert Byron and Ernst Jünger. With Byron he shared a boyish romanticism sophisticated by intellect, a sense of the bizarre, and the gift of descriptive exactitude. In the chapter on Ernst Jünger’s Diaries (which he subtitles ...”

“... to be waiters, until it becomes their proper nature. It is the same with writers and artists. Byron or David or Robert Lowell cannot slink off and become their ordinary selves in the intervals of being poets and painters and men of the age. Greta Garbo is always Greta Garbo, once she has found the part. But there is quite a different category of actor, as ...”

“... Nettie, the girl on the verge of falling in love, ‘made a space between two books and fitted Byron into it’. The object of her feelings, meanwhile, on the following page, ‘fitted the empty boxes, ingeniously, one inside the other’. The German saying Ordnung ist das halbe Leben means ‘order is half of life’ – and it sometimes seems like the ...”

“... allusion by major British poets of the 18th and 19th centuries: Dryden, Pope, Wordsworth, Burns, Byron, Keats and Tennyson. The second, ‘In the Company of Allusion’, is a collection of occasional essays on allusion in minor or contemporary poets, or on general topics related to allusion: there are pieces on A.E. Housman, Yvor Winters, David ...”

“... in these two books increased by about twenty pounds over a hundred-year period. In July 1807, Byron, wearing only his shoes, weighed 10 st 13 lb. Two weeks later he weighed 11 st. He was heaviest in 1809 (11 st 5 lbs), lightest two years later (9 st 11 lb). Henry Angelo was a fencing master and the author of a memoir about his friends and his ...”

“... no writer of verse can afford to be without’ – God knows how they managed before the 1960s. Byron is referred to in the introduction, but if he’d stuck to what’s on offer in the Manual, Don Juan wouldn’t have achieved quite the standing it has. Take, for example, that famous couplet from Canto I: ‘But – Oh! Ye lords of ladies ...”

“... the past’; a re-imagining of the past, illustrated here by re-imaginings of Aeschylus and Blake, Byron and Pound, gives us poems containing more history than they themselves were aware of, and affords us a chance to break with the Kantian aesthetic of disinterest, to see poetry as concerned with knowledge and with present and also future history, and to call ...”

“... British poet to have been keen on boxing and, apparently, quite good at it: we may think of Lord Byron and Robert Graves. But few others, surely, have written and worried so concernedly about the ethics of this sport, its moral justification. Ring of Truth, his first novel since The Big Time in 1965, returns hungrily to Scannell’s old problem. Can ...”

“... square, have received jail sentences for aesthetic ineptitude.) Spender visits the places where Byron riskily intrigued and where Shelley died: he suspects that Shelley was murdered, and that political enemies of Byron were, at the same time, creating ‘a vacuum around the victim’, detaching ...”

“... he had listened to his gifted mother reading Gibbon when he was a boy; he preceded and survived Byron, Shelley and Keats. He outlived Enthusiasm and revolution, sat through the quarrels of Reform, went on to consider the doubts of Matthew Arnold and the euphoria of the Great Exhibition, and listened to all arguments with a satirist’s joy in dispute. A ...”

“... have lasted, apart from his study of Curzon, his lives of King George V and of Tennyson, and his Byron, The Last Phase. A word, too, should be said for his life of his father, Lord Carnock, which he regarded as his best achievement. He wrote with care and in an elegant, limpid style: but there are times when one is reminded of Balfour’s remark about ...”