His VERY SELF AND VOICE (676 pp.)Edited by Ernest J. Lovell Jr.Mocmillan ($7.50).
"For a man of genius, in the 19th century," wrote Stendhal, "there is no alternative: he is either a fool or a monster." The great French novelist made this remark after meeting the one great romantic genius of Europe whose monstrous capacities were never in doubt: George Gordon, Lord Byron.
No other poet evoked in his contemporaries the burning curiosity, the passionate enthusiasm and revulsion, that Byron aroused wherever he went. It is an understatement to say that people were mad...
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