Bookishness

booktumbling:

“Thank the gods of literature that George Gordon, Lord Byron, was born in 1788, well out of the reach of psycho­pharmacology. “Byron in Love,” the Irish novelist Edna O’Brien’s compact and mischievously complicit biography of the great Romantic poet and enfant terrible, skates over its subject’s literary career to showcase the dissolute behavior Byron’s critics decried as that of a “second Caligula.””