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...real men and real women; and it is the dream-world, with its iridescence of beauty and its simplified and intensified characters, that he portrays for us in his poetry, save where he shows us the distorted pictures of life to be found in the minds of men half-mad with disappointed passion. His impatience of conventional life, his lack of interest in concrete character, and his intense subjectivity, mark him out closely akin to the Romantic poets, and as not having passed beyond the Romantic point of view and the Romantic mood in any such way as Browning...
...judging Byron it is impossible to separate his personal from his literary character. And yet a critic's view is very different from that of a moralist. Byron's power was in his personality. He was born into an evil inheritance. His father was Mad Jack of the Guards. His mother, a lioness of a woman, was deserted by her husband, and left with her "lame brat." She was the worst kind of woman to bring up such a child. He succeeded his father as Lord Byron in his eleventh year. In 1803 he met the Mary of his poems...
...Emmett, the German comdian appeared last night at the Hollis St. Theatre in "Uncle Joe or Fritz in a Mad House." The action of the play is laid in Australia and the scenes represented are very varied...
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