We certainly know where and what the author said about value in terms of studies on Byron (or at least we should! It was the main point!). The author said that studies on Byron are valuable only if they pay particular attention to Byron himself, his biography or perhaps the influences his life had on his poetry. We can look back at the text if we want but I luckily found this fairly easy to remember because it was so important. Either way, if we wanted to look back at the text, "value" was described by the author in line 11.
So what would the author find valuable? Let's pre-phrase! We know that the author would strongly value a study of Byron that took him and his life into strong consideration. We can expect a trap answer saying the opposite, something like "a study that dismisses his life events in favor of analyzing the verbal cues of his poetry" or something whacky like that.
- (A) Poetic style is not something the author cares too much about. In fact, the author blatantly acknowledges Byron's strange poetic style while still believing that Byron is worth reading and valuable. This happens in paragraph two. Eliminate.
(B) I think the author would probably be very interested in Byron's thoughts! In addition, I am not really sure how the "history of ideas" phrase lines up here - the author doesn't really talk about that. Let's stick to the author's opinion! Eliminate.
(C) Oooh very tempting! I like this one. We know that Byron's emotions are very important and we know that the author would want to do a little bit of inspection on Byron himself when analyzing his poetry for value. Let's keep this.
(D) We don't exactly know how the author feels about literary critics but we know that the author doesn't care that much language! This is, I believed, described in the second paragraph when the author talks about Byron not being a "great" poet. Eliminate.
(E) Very close! However, we aren't concerned with the literary critic's life - we are concerned with Byron's life.
(C) is the answer.
Correction for (E): "a study in which a literary critic drew on experiences from Byron's life (in order to analyze his poetry)."