April 12, 2024
Byron's Poetical Works, Gall & Inglis' Landscape Series of Poets, Published 1857
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With notable exceptions, including Hemingway, writers are often thought of as leading quiet, thoughtful lives. Not so with Byron. No actor, rock star or politician of today can claim either the infamy or the popularity of the early 19th poet, Lord George Gordon Byron. This complex leader of the Romantic Movement became an overnight sensation upon publication of his long poem, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." He is said to have remarked, "I awoke one morning to find myself famous."My high school English literature class provided only a brief overview of the "romantic" poets that included Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly and Byron. Byron's "She Walks in Beauty" was inoffensive enough of a poem to be read in class, but there was little discussion of the man's personal life. I have since found that his father, "Mad Jack" Byron, had married his wife for her money and escaped to France after quickly running through it, and his great-uncle, a suspected murderer, was known as "the Wicked Lord."Byron's personal life, we learn post-high school, consisted of restless traveling, prodigious drinking, participation in the national liberation struggles of Italy and Greece, and his sexual relations with, it seems, anyone with whom he came into contact, including aristocrats, servants, classmates, landladies, friends, friends of friends, actresses, and adoring
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