This Week in Literary History: Lord Byron Swims Across the Hellespont
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This Week in Literary History: Lord Byron Swims Across the Hellespont
“I plume myself on this achievement more than I could possibly do on any kind of glory, political, poetical, or rhetorical.”
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This Week in Literary History: Lord Byron Swims Across the Hellespont
In Greek myth, the hero Leander swam four miles across the Hellespont—a choppy strait in Turkey now called the Dardanelles, which separates Europe from Asia—every night to visit Hero, a virgin prie…
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