The _Life of Scott_, by his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart, is one of the most
complete and interesting biographies in the language. In it the student
will find a list of all his works, with the dates of their production; and
will wonder that an author who was so rapid and so prolific could write so
much that was of the highest excellence. If not the greatest genius of his
age, he was its greatest literary benefactor; and it is for this reason
that we have given so much space to the record of his life and works.
CHAPTER XXXV.
THE NEW ROMANTIC POETRY: BYRON AND MOORE.
Early Life of Byron. Childe Harold and Eastern Tales. Unhappy Marriage.
Philhellenism and Death. Estimate of his Poetry. Thomas Moore.
Anacreon. Later Fortunes. Lalla Rookh. His Diary. His Rank as Poet.
In immediate succession after Scott comes the name of Byron. They were
both great lights of their age; but the former may be compared to a planet
revolving in regulated and beneficent beauty through an unclouded sky;
while the latter is more like a comet whose lurid light came flashing upon
the sight in wild and threatening career.
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