I think much the same about Burns and Byron. It's the hypocrisy: all the high-flown idealism in the writing, but treating real-life people, especially women, as essentially disposable. In comparison, the likes of Villon and Rimbaud didn't pretend to be other than what they were.
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Date: 2007-08-04 06:52 pm (UTC)