13 Lord Byron Quotes on Literature

Lord Byron quotes on literature

1. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818)

2. Don Juan (1818-1824)

36. Send me no more reviews of any kind. - I will read no more of evil or good in that line. - Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years.

38. Who killed John Keats? 'I,' says the Quarterly, So savage and Tartarly; ''Twas one of my feats.'

49. 'Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

120. If I could envy any man for successful ill nature I should envy Lord Byron for his skill in satirical nomenclature.

123. If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: 'Byron is dead!'

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124. The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.

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125. Lord Byron makes man after his own image, woman after his own heart; the one is a capricious tyrant, the other a yielding slave.

127. Our Lord Byron - the fascinating - faulty - childish - philosophical being - daring the world - docile to a private circle - impetuous and indolent - gloomy and yet more gay than any other.

128. It still saddens me that Lord Byron, who showed such impatience with the fickle public, wasn't aware of how well the Germans can understand him and how highly they esteem him. With us the moral and political tittle-tattle of the day falls away, leaving the man and the talent standing alone in all their brilliance.

131. From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, a system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour's wife.

134. The news came to the village - the dire news which spread across the land, filling men's hearts with consternation - that Byron was dead. Tennyson was then about a boy of fifteen. 'Byron was dead! I thought the whole world was at an end,' he once said, speaking of those bygone days. 'I thought everything was over and finished for everyone - that nothing else mattered. I remembered I walked out alone, and carved 'Byron is dead' into the sandstone.'