영국의 유명한 시인들.제1권.The Mentor:Famous English Poets,Vol1,Num.44,by Hamilton Wright Mabie

책소개서 연속.
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Byron died ninety- one years ago; but, although
there has been a great change in the way poets
look at life and in their way of writing verse, he
holds his place as one of the greater poets, not
only in reputation, but in popular regard; and for
two reasons,―he was one of the born singers to
whom men will always stop to listen, and he was
also a poet of revolt. He is not read in this
country as Browning and Kipling are read; nor,
on the other hand, is he neglected as Milton and
Landor are neglected. His stormy nature and his
tempestuous career add an element of personal
interest to the claims of his poetry upon the
attention of reading people today, and he is one
of those men of genius about whom it is difficult
to be judicial: those who like his work become
his partizans, those who dislike him charge him
with insincerity and immorality.
It must be frankly confessed that Byron had
moments of insincerity, and that he often posed;
but he was largely the victim of his temperament.
Mr. Symonds has said of him that he was well
born and ill bred. He had noble impulses, and he
had the strong passions that give energy of
feeling and vitality of imagination to many of the
greatest men and women; but he had neither
clearness of moral vision nor steadiness of
purpose. He had great genius; but he was
neither intellectually nor morally great. And yet
he had such force of mind and eloquence that
Goethe, (gay´- te) who was the greatest critic of
his time, if not of all time, declared that the
English could show no poet to be compared with
him.