I see the hypocrisy in the people who wrote about them: I don't know enough about Burns to say whether he was a hypocrite, but Byron and Shelley pretended to no idealism in the matter - Byron wrote about the tempations of the flesh in eloquent language, and Shelley truly believed in free love. He never thought any women were disposable.
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Date: 2007-08-04 07:16 pm (UTC)I like Villon and Rimbaud, too.