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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. What has been said of Petrarch, that his correspondence and verses together afford the progressive interest of a narrative in which the poet is always identified with the man, will be found applicable, in a far greater degree, to Lord Byron, in whom the literary and the personal character were so closely interwoven, that to have left his works without the instructive commentary which his Life and Cor respondence afford, would have been equally an injustice both to himself and to the world.