“Send me no more reviews of any kind. — I will read no more of evil or good in that line.”

— George Gordon Byron

Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years.
Letter to his publisher, John Murray (3 November 1821).

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English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824

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