Excerpt from Selections From the Poems of Lord Byron Byron was violently blamed in England, not only for his treat ment of his wife, but for general dissolute conduct and for the audacity of his sentiments. Such was the revulsion Of public feeling, so vehement was the outcry against him, that, as he after wards wrote, he felt that if what was said were true he was unfit for England if false, England was unfit for him. Under the cir cums auces his pride dictated but one course: on the 25th of April. 1816, he quitted England, never to return. Only four years of his mature life had been passed in his native land. He was but twenty-eight years old when he set out on his second and final visit to southern Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.