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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020611
Author:Ian Irvine

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the German polymath, is recorded by his amanuensis Eckermann: "Today Goethe talked much at dinner about Major Parry's book on Lord Byron. He gave it unqualified praise; remarking that Byron appeared a far more complete character, and far more clear as to himself and his views, than in anything else written about him. Major Parry, continued Goethe, must be an elevated - a noble person; so fully to have conceived, and so perfectly to have described his friend. One passage in his book has pleased me particularly; it is worthy of an ancient Greek or Plutarch. The noble ...

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