Lord Byron Resists but Reads, 1820,1821

Extracts (a) from letters to John Murray on 4 January 1821 and 6 July 1820 ('Letters', V, pp. 217, 47); (b) from a conversation with Thomas Medwin in 1821 ('Medwin's Conversations with Lord Byron', ed. E.J. Lovell, Jr (1966), p. 139).