| He was a bad man; as bad perhaps, as a man
with a great intellect, a passionate animal nature, intense egotism and
selfishness and little or no moral principle to restrain or govern either
of these, could be. ... The alliance of a poetical imagination and a subtle
intellect with an animal constitution grossly sensual has been no uncommon
thing, and Byron furnished as conspicuous an instance of it as the world
ever had for its study. The beautiful and the bestial are at struggle with
each other all through his writings, and the bestial so often mastered his
pen that we cannot with reason refuse to believe, on good evidence, that
it may have mastered the man even to the extent of this abhorrent crime
[incest]. - "The Byron Scandal," Buffalo Express, 24 August 1869 |
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