Lord Byron Among the Reviews

According to both Shelley and Byron—Shelley writing with accusatory sentimentality in Adonais and Byron with self-congratulatory jesting in Don Juan—the periodicals killed John Keats. An early biographer of Byron, John Galt, makes a related claim about Byron: With title, wealth, and genius blest, The noble Byron knows no rest; From clime to clime, he flies in vain, Nor finds a refuge from his pain. Is love, rejected love the cause, Perfidious friendship, or the laws? Or does the moon control his blood? Ah no. What then? His books reviewed. John Galt, “Epigram” ( Autobiography 123) Although reviews were not fatal to Byron, Galt proposes that they were instrumental to his public persona, to his restlessness, to a deformation that Galt associates with Byron’s “singular scowl” (GLB Chs. 8 and 24 and Autobiography 118). 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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