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Byron in Love Kevin Roose Tolkien’s classic masterpieceByron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his gigantic flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him from the particular to the universal. Everything about Lord George Gordon Byron was a paradox insider and outsider, beautiful and deformed, serious and facetious, profligate but on occasion miserly and