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Article: Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Antioch Review
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- January 1, 2000
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Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler. Knopf, 837 pp., $35.00. Dylan Thomas once described a gift book that recorded "everything about the wasp, except why." In her April 1999 addition to a bloom of books on the Romantics, Eisler has gone Thomas one better: her biography of George Gordon, Lord Byron, includes "why" to a fault. Eisler describes parental philanderings and tantrums, concluding that Byron's "earliest attachment ... convinced him of the unreliability of women, just as his first memories of marriage were of its miseries." She attributes his competitive aggression to the deformed foot Byron blamed on his chubby mother's corsetry during ...
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