![]() ![]() Most of these versions are more or less familiar, and more or less incompatible with each other: the melancholy misanthrope, the people’s champion, the arrogant peer, the man of action, the play-soldier, the fool of women, the bane of women, the gay icon, the Romantic, the anti-Romantic. ![]() He puzzled himself, sometimes happily, sometimes less so, and left his life ‘a problem, like all things’ to his future biographers, who have portrayed him in almost as great variety as he portrayed himself. The picture is both strangely boastful and disarmingly self-mocking, the complacent self-assessment of a man confident in the interest with which others assess him. So that I almost think that the same skin Mild, but at times a sort of Hercules furens, Patient, though not enamoured of enduranceĬheerful, but sometimes rather apt to whimper, Modest I am, though with some slight assurance, ![]() ‘Temperate I am, yet never had a temper,’ Byron wrote in the unfinished seventeenth canto of Don Juan, whose fragments he took with him on his final expedition to Greece in 1823: ![]()
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