Volume 20, Number 2 · February 22, 1973
Byron's Baby
By F.W. Bateson
Byron's Hebrew Melodies
edited by Thomas L. Ashton
University of Texas, 234 pp., $7.50
Byron's Daughter
by Catherine Turney
Scribner's, 320 pp., $8.95
Byron
by John D. Jump
Routledge Author Guides, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 212 pp., $4.75 (paper)
Among the Victorian junk I inherited from a gaggle of great-aunts is a set of editions of Byron's early poems, still in their original dirty-brown paper covers. Several of them are first editions, though their market value is inconsiderable. I must admit that I have not noticed any thumbmarks or marginal exclamations to indicate that any member of the family ever read any of the volumes. And why on earth should they? Before Beppo (a minor master-piece) and a few stanzas from Childe Harold, a still fewer lyrics perhaps, what was there really for Byron to awaken and find himself famous for?
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