Lady Caroline Lamb,
from Glenarvon (1816)
Robert Southey,
from the Preface to his Vision of Judgment (1821)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
from Conversations with Eckermann (1822-32)
Stendhal,
from Oeuvres Completes v. 35 (Memories of Lord Byron) (1829)
Gustave Flaubert,
from his letters: to Ernest Chevalier (September 13, 1838)
to Alfred Le Poittevin (May 26, 1845)
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
from Thoughts on Modern Literature (1840)
Matthew Arnold,
preface to his edition of Byron's Poems (1881)
Oscar Wilde,
from The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
George Bernard Shaw,
from the Dedicatory Letter to Man and Superman (1903)
Virginia Woolf,
from A Writer's Diary (Wednesday, 7 August 1918)
T.S. Eliot,
Byron (1937)