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Hello, his life was filled with Celebrity and chaos. Throughout it all he wrote,

generating some of the finest poetry of his or any other generation. But what did

Byron think?

What happened when this great creator of Poetic persona dropped his guard?

Road to an intimate, shared his thoughts with a single person rather than the masses.

For that we set aside the poetry and turn to the letters.

Andrew Stauffer has chosen ten such letters from the catalog of thousands and he's based a book on them.

We talked to Andrew Stoffer about the life of Lord Byron as captured in ten letters today

on the history of literature.

Okay, here we go.

Welcome to the podcast.

I'm Jack Wilson, etc. I don't mind using the etc today

but first of all because you've already heard the rest host of the show and all

that but also because it's one of my favorite moments in Byron's poetry and it was

introduced to me by a professor at the University of Chicago. I went to his office

hours and said I'm interested in writing my paper on the romantic

poets and their invocations of the muse and he said well the guy you've the first thing you must do you got to make sure you take a look at

Byron.

Hale Muse etc. He wrote in one of his poems it was a whole new world for me, Byron.

Suddenly I saw him as kind of the David Letterman to Wordsworth's Johnny Carson in the same game but also tearing it apart at the same time.

Whittier, knowing, subversive, winking his arm around us like an old friend.

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