Christine Kenyon-Jones

Very worthwhile discussion of Byron's "theriophily" (for Byron, "the unreasoning animals--despite their ferocity--remain not only innocent but also morally superior to their human tormentors"), as well as "the extent to which Byron's disability and his empathy with animals are connected," since, as "le diable boiteux," he, like they, was denied the privilege of "being made in the image of God" (a topic pursued extensively in a chapter on Cain and The Deformed Transformed). Also looks at Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and others.… (meer)