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1816, the disillusionment of 1819, and the valor of 1823.
But if we are to understand Byron, we have to take, not
glimpses, but an over-all view of the man and the poet. Such
a view will reveal to us one who never wavered in the pur-
suit of his objective. He began his career with expressions of
hope for the freedom of man. He continued to express this
hope, which is a dominant element in most of his poetry, and
he ended his days striving, successfully, to instill that hope
and love of liberty in the hearts of a suffering people.
Wilfred S. Dowden
NOTES
1. Paul Graham Trueblood, The Flowering of Byrons Genius (Stan-
ford: Stanford University Press, 1945), pp. 6-25.
2. Rowland E. Prothero (ed.), The Works of Lord Byron: Letters
and Journals (London: John Murray, 1902), II, 381.
3. Ibid., I, 209-210.
4. Ibid., II, 85.
5. “Provincial Occurrences: Nottinghamshire,” Monthly Magazine,
XXXII (1811), 614.
6. Prothero, op. cit., II, 97 n.
7. Ibid., p. 105.
8. Ibid., p. 428.
9. George Gordon, Lord Byron, Complete Poetical Works (New
York: The Macmillan Co., 1907), p. 1282.
10. “Petition of the Roman Catholics of Ireland,” Monthly Magazine,
XXX (1812), 280.
11. Prothero, op. cit., H, 431-443.
12. T. C. Hansard, The Parliamentary Debates (London: Privately
Printed, 1812), XXII, 703.
13. Byron, op. cit., p. 664.
14. Prothero, op. cit., II, 443-445.
15. Ibid., Ill, 72.
16. Byron, op. cit., ρ. 389.
17. Prothero, op. cit., III, 187.
18. Byron, op. cit., p. 226.
19. Ibid., p. 241 n.
20. Ibid., p. 230.
21. Ibid., p. 231.
22. Prothero, op. cit., IV, 409.
23. Ibid., p. 418.