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Admirin’ Byron

Ranjit Bolt on Lord Byron, Don Juan

That a romantic could have also been So classical is striking you’ll agree Though waxing passionate when we are green And cooler when mature is probably A change determined in the very gene Or so at any rate it seems to me – Our grasp of life is just that bit more firm, Our reason turns like the proverbial worm.

The Dean and the Don

Derek Parker on Lord Byron, Don Juan

Back in 1968, when I was editing Poetry Review, published by the Poetry Society, I started a campaign to have a memorial to Byron placed in Poets’ Corner. I was tentative in my first approach to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey, suspecting they might not be particularly enthusiastic about giving space to a man who boasted of having enjoyed a hundred different women during his first two years in Venice and who thought that ‘all sense and senses’ were against belief in religion.

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