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Poets & Pugilists

Byron’s love affair with bare-knuckle boxing was shared by many of his fellow Romantics, who celebrated this most brutal of sports in verse. John Strachan examines an unlikely match.

John Strachan | Published in History Today Volume 59 Issue 1 January 2009

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