Excerpt from Wake Forest Student, Vol. 24: October, 1904 Byron, like many another poet, was a great but he does not try to conceal his theft. His have been found in Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon Sterne; Goethe and many others; including the Job. In defence of his piracy, Mr. Trent made what he found his own by recreating the rough 0 into bell-metal; that he brewed a caldron like that Macbeth's witches and from it arose the images crowned kings. As a letter writer Byron has few equals. It is to letters we must go if we would see the man as he Like his poetry, they are marked with dash, dire and force, and rank him near the very top of the greatest letter writers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.