person
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
Byron
also: Байрон, Lord Byron
English Romantic poet (1788-1824) whose closet drama "Cain" (1821) the bored assistant prosecutor reads under the table during the murder trial in "In the Court," his rapt attention to a poetic fratricide contrasting with his total indifference to the real killing being tried before him.
Reading notes
- The Duel §149 Byron
Lord Byron, whose closet drama 'Cain' is grouped with Onegin and Pechorin as fashionable cover for Laevsky's self-pity.
- The Bet §21 Byron or Shakespeare
In his last two years the prisoner's reading becomes indiscriminate and simultaneous -- natural science alongside Byron or Shakespeare -- Chekhov's image for a mind that has exhausted the value of ordered study.