Very interesting article! Thanks for that. I thought this was kind of telling--as I read somewhere he was a manic depressive:
"Although Byron praised the elegance of Rogers’s writing, and spent time with him and Shelley in Italy, he eventually turned against him. Dr Cochran described Byron as a volatile and emotional character who had turned against most of his friends at some time."
Yep, there's the Byron we all know and love--then hate. (Or is it the Byron we "love to hate"

) OK, I'm obviously not a fan of Byron the man--and I haven't read much of his poetry, so I can't comment on that. He called Keats's poetry a "masturbation of the imagination"--if I read it right in the Motion biography. Anyway, I thought he was too stuck up for his own good. I'll take a Cockney poet with his "nosegay of enigmas" over Byron *any* day.
It would be absolutely cool to just stumble upon a lost poem written by a great poet the way the librarian did. Just goes to show, I guess, that the greatest surprises come to us when we least expect them!