THE PILGRIM OF ETERNITY. BYRON - A CONFLICT. John Drinkwater. Doran ($5). The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame
Over his living head like Heaven is bent
An early but enduring monument.
Shelley's lines and a single sentence from the book explain Dr. Drinkwater's selection of a title: "It is the conflict of Byron, the essential poet, with this other Byron begotten by society upon his weaknesses, that is really the leitmotif of his story."
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