the pen is mightier than the bull?

The new Hemingway Review had a fascinating article by Richard Hishmeh about Hemingway and Lord Byron. EH owned three biographies of Byron and checked others out of the library, so it was more than a passing interest.

The article goes beyond the similarities in the two men – Hemingway was Byronic and Byron was Hemingwayish! – to the fascinating and verifiable observation that both men consciously forged a public persona, and their success at that arguably had a deleterious effect on their writ...