Volume 46, Number 18 · November 18, 1999
Not an Ideal Husband
By Anne Barton
On a Voiceless Shore: Byron in Greece
by Stephen Minta
Henry Holt, 292 pp., $25.00
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
by Benita Eisler
Knopf, 837 pp., $35.00
In the fragmentary last canto of Don Juan, abandoned in 1823 when Byron left Italy to sacrifice his life (as it turned out) in the Greek War of Independence, he reflected mockingly upon what he recognized as the instability and contradictions of his own nature:
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