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From great poets like Goethe and Pushkin down to the most brainless schoolgirl, his works were read with an almost hysterical enthusiasm which, as we struggle with the rhetorical nonsense of Lara or The Giaour, we can hardly credit, because, although Byron wrote quite a lot of good poetry, it was his bad poetry that make him famous
From great poets like Goethe and Pushkin down to the most brainless schoolgirl, his works were read with an almost hysterical enthusiasm which, as we struggle with the rhetorical nonsense of Lara or The Giaour, we can hardly credit, because, although Byron wrote quite a lot of good poetry, it was his bad poetry that make him famous
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From great poets like Goethe and Pushkin
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down to the most brainless schoolgirl
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his works were read with an almost hysterical enthusiasm
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which as we struggle through the rhetorical nonsense of Lara or The Giaou
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we can hardly credit
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because although Byron wrote quite a lot of good poetry
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it was his bad poetry that made him famous
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Sir Kenneth Clarke guides us through the ages exploring the glorious rise of civilisation in western man. Beginning with the bleakness of the dark ages to the present day, we consider civilisation's articulations and expressions i...
