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Excerpt from Poems and Letters of Lord Byron: Edited From the Original Manuscripts in the Possession of W. K. Bixby, of St. Louis
In writing anything about Byron or his work one is conscious of a per petual chance of error in statement or inference. Undoubtedly a large amount of Byroniana and Byron manuscripts still remain unpublished. This material may and very probably does contain data which would refute or modify many currently accepted facts or views concerning the poet and his life and works. Again, even the accomplished editors of the various Murray editions have a vexing habit of making categorical statements with out adducing or mentioning their authority for them. One is thus left to guess whether such an assertion is merely the editor's personal belief, or whether he had good authority for it, but was not permitted to reveal it. It is also difficult at times to make sure that a particular letter of Byron's has never been published. Besides the authorized editions of the letters there are scores of memoirs, biographies, etc., of persons who knew Byron or who were in correspondence with him, in some one of which a newly found letter may already have been printed.
For the purposes of this volume, the last edition of Byron's poems, let ters, and journals as published by the house of Murray has been taken as a canon and authority. That monumental work is indeed the most com.
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