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Many of Lord Bryon's peers respected his works. However, some disagreed with his treatment of women.
Virginia Woolf an English author, feminist, essayist, and critic wrote about Lord Byron in her book A Writer's Diary.
She writes of Byron saying his works were not the best she had ever seen but he did have a "superb force" in his letters.
She also said about women and Byron, "In fact, I'm amused to find how easily I can imagine the effect he had upon women -
especially upon rather stupid or uneducated women, unable to stand up to him."
The general consensus from the critics of George Byron's time was that he wasted his energy on the language
of the english and did not reach his potential.
Oscar Wilde the author of The Importance of Being Earnest said of Lord Byron, "Byron's personality,
for instance, was terribly wasted in its battle with the stupidity, and hypocrisy, and Philistinism of the English.
Such battles do not always intensify strength: they often exaggerate weakness. Byron was never able to give us what
he might have given us."
A critic who was not a big fan of Byron was T.S. Eliot. Eliot says of Byron, "Of Byron one can say, as of
no other English poet of his eminence, that he added nothing to the language, that he discovered nothing in the sounds, and
developed nothing in the meaning, of individual words."
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