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Peter Quennell

  

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Peter Quennell : Byron in Italy

'My library book now is "Byron in Italy" by Peter Quennell. I have not read much of Byron's poetry for many, many years. You probably remember the large volume of his work in C.V. with its voluptuous illustrations. I had that, but it has vanished with all my other books which were taken to Marten by my family. The book I am now looking at does not impress me with the bits of verse it quotes. I suppose that Byron could rhyme "beautiful" and "full" and "annul" and get away with it, but they don't seem to be right to me. I expect that he wrote "Don Juan" from his own experiences.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

Peter Quennell : Byron. The Years of Fame

Saturday 29 February 1936: 'I read Quennel [sic] on Byron: dont like that young mans clever agile thin blooded mind'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

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