Download or read book Byron: A Poet Before His Public written by Philip W. Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-07-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a major reappraisal of Byron's poetry, which despite his enormous influence, the poetry is often of inferior quality and so inconsistent in its attitudes that Byron's poetic seriousness is inevitably called into question. Dr Martin considers the nature of Byron's relationship with his public and its effect on his poetry.