...powers as a model for the powers and the sufferings of the poet who aims at eternal fame, seeking to be the new Prometheus of new men, Bestowing fire from...late, Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain. (The Prophecy of Dante, IV 1 4-1 6) For Byron, Prometheus' punishment at the claws of the eagle offered...

...are poets but without the name, For what is poesy but to create From overfeeling good or ill; and aim At an external life beyond our fate, And be the new...vultures to the heart of the bestower, Who, having lavished his high gift in vain, Lies chained to his lone rock by the sea-shore? So be it : we can bear....