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      <name><![CDATA[George Gordon Byron]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[i love how the &quot;Complete Works&quot; rolls in at a weighty 1100 pages, yet &quot;Selected Poems&quot; only whittles it to the oh-so-manageable 800. solid. <br/><br/>currently reading <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2393047.Bulfinch_s_Mythology_The_Age_of_Fable_or_Stories_of_Gods_and_Heroes" title="Bulfinch's Mythology  The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch">Bulfinch's Mythology  The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes</a>, which references scads of Byron's mythol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67381403">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lord Byron was, until the age of biological engineering, pretty much the zenith of human development. Lord knows what he could have done with 80mg per diem sustained release Adderall® {dextro}?amphetamine salts or, like, elephant pituitary extracts, or hell even some Centrum and antibiotics instead...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63907246">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember enjoying this one back in high school (and I wasn't &quot;goth&quot;, I swear):<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=173081" title="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=173081">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 06 16:57:38 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only poems I was privy to read of Byron's in high school (and college) were &quot;She Walks in Beauty&quot; and &quot;When We Two Parted&quot;. I thought, perhaps, that they were his best works and therefore no other poems would be worthy of a read--but as I picked up this book and started readi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32532948">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 13 07:23:55 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[You either love Byron or you hate him. And it should probably come as no surprise that I absolutely adore him. The original goth-emo boy. Man did it with style, though. His life is fascinating, ridiculous, over the top. Watching his journey through poetry is just amazing, watching how throughly his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1917698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Have read all of Byron's Turkish Tales now, as well as _Manfred_, (which I regularly teach) -- also parts of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the first canto of Don Juan, and the early satire English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Sardanapalus is next on my list, followed by more of CHP. What can I say? It'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23804142">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[world kept revealing byron to me...austen, joyce, movies...so, i figured i needed to find out what this man was about.  Glad I did.  If you're not a romantic, don't read him.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good survey of Byron's works. I still have much more to get through at this point.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[*Swoons*. I would totally have run off with Byron, scandal or no. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of all the poets, i could never part with my Byron.]]></body>
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