Nichol, John

[Nichol, John]. Bailun zhuan. Gao Diansen yi. [ID D26446].
Chu Chih-yu : Nichol paid more attention to Byron's achievement in literature and his treatment of the subject was in a different fashion and style from Brandes, Maurois and Trsurumi. Nichol was more objective than the non-English critics. He describes Byron from the points of view of other people. The book comments on Byron from different people and perspectives, which include Byron's contemporaries, relatives, associates, friends, and enemies, as well as later critics. Byron was presented not as a great hero or fighter but as a real human being, with strengths and weaknesses, a Romantic poet with a creative imagination and artistic limitations.