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Maurois and the New Biography
Krutch, Joseph Wood | April 16, 1930 issue

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The article discusses books and authors. In "Byron," the author A. Maurois, was given access to several unpublished sources of material. From them, he has selected various anecdotes which fill out with- out essentially altering the accepted outline of English poet George Byron's character, and he has achieved a clear if not particularly profound or original portrait of the man whose psychology is well summed up in the statement that "his tastes inclined him to intellectualism, his pride to dissipation." Perhaps A. Maurois, reacting against the reaction which followed upon Byron's enormous popularity, tends rather to exaggerate his merits as a poet.

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AUTHORS; MAUROIS, M.; LITERATURE; AUTHORSHIP; BOOKS; WRITING
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