The Late Lord Byron

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Excerpt from The Late Lord Byron: Posthumous DramasBut the very magnitude of Byron's renown was a cause of extra ordinary distortions of the evidence. To inflate an acquaintanceship into an intimacy, to suggest that three or four meetings were thirty or forty meetings, to tint the picture with the colours the reading public would find congenial - how could these temptations be resisted when there was such a market for 'inside stories' that it seemed the supply could never equal the demand? And there was not only the money, there was the satisfaction of linking oneself in any attitude one chose to assume with a man who, by. The mere weight of his fame, could not fail to go down to posterity.The concern of memoirists to portray themselves in relation to Byron rather than to portray Byron causes a large amount of literature to yield a very small proportion of reliable information. Simply by using verifiable dates as a check upon the expansiveness of the narrators (a surprisingly rare practice to which I have resorted often in these pages), we drastically reduce the significance of some events and prove others to be apocryphal. The brilliant Stendhal, the obtuse John Galt, the socially exuberant Lady Blessington, the socially negligible Medwin, the pious Dallas, the defiant Trelawny - all were alike in this, that their recollections of Byron were contrived to heighten their own stature, and therefore require sifting.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.