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Abstract Facts in this study essentially refer to Byron’s travel experience, which has inspired his oriental narrative poetry. Byron’s accurate portrayal of the East is not a sketch of an Orientalist to Europeans. It is partly a way of betraying the jingoistic notions of western superiority throught revealing the merits of other nations. Essentially, however, it is expression of his desire to fight the cant of his day throught facing the readers with the truths they evade to see.It is this constant inspection for truch reflected in the recurrence of words like factual, truthful, honest and accurate in Byron,s letters that has first inspired this thesis. |