“... as ‘a small man, not much smaller than Napoleon. He limped because of a club foot, as did Byron. Very clever, he got a scholarship to Heidelberg where he acquired his doctorate.’ Lady Mosley burbled on in this vein for a bit, spicing things up with references to Goebbels’s ‘inspired oratory’. Concerning Kristallnacht she was scrupulously ...”

“... seem quite irrelevant to the contents of the books. It is known, for Coleridge mentions it, that Byron admired ‘Kubla Khan’ and that Lees-Milne admired Byron, for he makes a point of saying so, but the connection still seems tenuous. Myself a newcomer to the delights of these diaries, which are thought by some to be ...”

“... back, I think it’s pretty funny I ever thought that. The Ecuadorian referee of that match, Byron Moreno, was suspended the following year for adding 13 minutes of extra time to a league game in his home country. The home team won after equalising in the 99th minute and going ahead in the 101st. Moreno retired from refereeing not long after. It’s ...”

“... crop disruption and civil unrest to Europe, dramatic sunsets to Britain and millennial thoughts to Byron, who ‘look’d up/With mad disquietude on the dull sky,/The pall of a past world … All earth was but one thought – and that was death.’ Nightmare visions of extinction and new forms of life, such as Byron’s and ...”

“... fiction can be matched to pictures – many of which are, anyway, illustrations to scenes from Byron, Scott, Shakespeare or French and British history. Looking at Delacroix’s Death of Sardanapalus (there is a sketch for it here) requires as great a tolerance of Byronic melodrama as reading Dumas’s chapters about death and betrayal in Tangiers. But if ...”

“... and the Lucy poems must have struck home like early Betjeman, or indeed like Larkin himself. Byron and Pushkin make a particular fetish of not being ‘writers’, and so in his different way did Kipling. These names probably confuse an issue which could be put quite baldly – as by Larkin again – by saying that content in poetry is not for the reader ...”

“... with everything that had gone before’. In terms of his besoin de fatalité Savage could put Byron or Baudelaire in the shade. More important, though, he is a perfect instance of obsessive self-creation, asserting and reasserting the persona out of which his biographer will make the portrait. The man he wanted to be, and always claimed to be, was the ...”

“... odd consequences of a 1990 book which battens on an 1887 one, consider the ironical dedication by Byron to the renegade Southey. It made cultural sense for Wheatley, in a Victorian world endemically hostile to verse satire, to judge that Byron’s brilliantly scathing dedication of Don Juan was ‘discreditable’: ‘It ...”

“... several poetic epigraphs, and brief quotations from other British writers, including Wordsworth, Byron and Monk Lewis. Robbins expands her analysis in In Search of Hannah Crafts, a collection of 23 essays on the book and its context which she has edited with Gates. The Dickens connection is, as she argues, substantial; Crafts used Bleak House as a source for ...”

“... death that provided inspiration and comfort might also serve as an instrument of torture. Though Byron’s daughter was herself a freethinker, the devout Lady Byron insisted on producing a death-bed repentance. While Ada died slowly and painfully of cancer, her mother managed not only to wrest control of the sickroom from ...”

“... and mending’ of a moving barge on reflecting water. Ali Pasha, who was in love with Byron but whom Byron considered a ‘father’, is invoked, as are the Muslim woman who loved Ali and the Christian woman who resisted him and was drowned for her pains. Ali becomes an emblem for the poet’s recently dead ...”

“... not considered by Greer nor allowed in mitigation. Thought of as the female equivalent of Byron, Landon exhibited, in Greer’s opinion, some of the worst sins into which women’s poetry was likely to fall: The verse may have been garbled ... the texture of the whole blurred and uneven, but there is still a glimmer of something more than prolixity ...”

“... friendship was conceived within the sentimental conventions of an earlier day, a heady mix of Byron and Rousseau. Such friendships typically had their roots in the alienated idealism of early adolescence and included a high-minded scorn for the adult world, a sense of shared literary vocation and a cheerfully crude confiding of erotic ...”

“... milkman had nearly run into the president and his wife while they were out horseriding. Captain Byron Lima Oliva of the EMP Presidential Guard had ridden out in front of the milkman’s van and signalled for him to stop. But the van kept coming, and Captain Lima was thrown from his horse and broke his arm. The milkman crashed his van into a parked car. EMP ...”

“... Henry Lewes. The abbey finally commemorated her in 1980. In 1824, an earlier dean had turned down Byron’s body, brought to the abbey from Greece, with thousands turning out for his unofficial funeral procession. Two years before, by night for fear of riots, the abbey had buried Castlereagh – suicide, suspender of habeas corpus and sponsor of the ...”