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Article: New books.(BYRON: LIFE AND LEGEND)(AGAINST THE MACHINE: THE HIDDEN LUDDITE TRADITION IN LITERATURE, ART, AND INDIVIDUAL LIVES)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- Harper's Magazine
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- December 1, 2002
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--Admit that Byron was no good.
--No.
--Admit.
--No.
--Admit.
--No. No.
These six staccato lines of dialogue appear in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce has the young Stephen Dedalus pressed against a barbed-wire fence by a gang of his classmates, dunces and idlers whom Stephen has just informed that "the greatest poet" is not that "rhymester" Alfred Lord Tennyson but Lord Byron, who in their view (one shared by much of Europe) was "a heretic," "immoral," and "a bad man." It is a wonderful Joycean moment, and not only because Byron himself had so often been put against the fence by his ...
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