The consequences were an unbounded admiration and a facility of reference, with the use of emotional adjectives.

Alec did not know a single poem of that writer, except the one about the Assyrian coming down like a wolf on the fold.
Determined, however, not to remain incapable of sympathizing with them, he got copies of the various poems from the library of the college, and for days studied Byron and anatomy--nothing else.

Like all other young men, he was absorbed, entranced, with the poems.

Childe Harold he could not read, but the tales were one fairy region after another.

Their power over young people is remarkable, but not more remarkable than the fact that they almost invariably lose this power over the individual, while they have as yet retained it over the race; for of all the multitude which does homage at the shrine of the poet few linger long, and fewer still, after the turmoil of life has yielded room for thought, renew their homage.