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| | The Cambridge Companion to Byron - Cambridge University Press |
 | | At one point, he appears to have dieted off fifty-one pounds over a period of five months. |
 | | He formed several close relationships here, as well, including those with John Cam Hobhouse, Charles Matthews, and with a young chorister named John Edleston, who inspired several beautiful poems dedicated to a sexually ambiguous figure named ‘Thyrza’. |
 | | He wrote more earnestly than he studied, and published by private means four books of poetry: Fugitive Pieces (1806), Poems on Various Occasions (1807), Hours of Idleness (1807), and Poems Original and Translated (1808). |
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