Lord Byron: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know
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Published 2021-11-08
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Source/Further reading:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, in-depth: www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614…
Britannica, overview: www.britannica.com/biography/Lord-Byron-poet
Biography, overview: www.biography.com/writer/lord-byron
Slate, overview: slate.com/culture/2009/07/edna-o-brien-s-byron-in-…
Guardian, Byron’s exile: www.theguardian.com/books/2002/nov/09/classics.poe…
Guardian, Byron’s sexual escapades: www.theguardian.com/theobserver/1999/may/30/featur…
Guardian, the complexities of Lord Byron: www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/06/the-private-…
NYTimes, Byron’s sexuality: www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/books/i-love-not-woman-…
Byron’s eating problems: hekint.org/2018/10/05/lord-byron-and-his-strange-r…
Byron and Augusta: www.theguardian.com/books/2000/aug/12/biography
British Library, punishments for homosexuality in Byron’s time: blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2020/06/remembering-the-ve…
NYTimes, Byron and Shelley: www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/travel/lake-geneva-as-b…
Infamous Edinburgh Review of Byron’s first collection: ir.vanderbilt.edu/bitstream/handle/1803/2465/Edinb…
All Comments (21)
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The fact that Byron's little daughter asked for her father in her deathbed is crushing. That's the true tragedy
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Simon being surprised about Ada Lovelace being Lord Byron's daughter is hilarious because he did a Biographics video on her 3 years ago 😂😂
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That bit about his 5 year old dying begging to see her daddy got me crying. How horrible.
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Fun fact: the Countess Teresa Guiccioli, that Byron had an affair with, is the character “the Countess G______” in Alexandre Dumas’s novel The Count of Monte Cristo. The reason Dumas wrote her name as the “Countess G_____” is because it was extremely common for authors to be sued for libel back then, so by writing her name with a line he made it clear who she was to contemporary readers but without the risk of being sued.
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Just wanted to let Simon know that the Ada Lovelace video was the first of his videos I ever watched and now I'm in an endless loop of Biographics, Geographics, Brain Blaze, Casual Criminalist ect.
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I had to study the poetry of Keats, Byron and Shelley when I was in school. I can barely remember a single line of any of it but the words that always stuck with me were those of my English teacher - “Byron makes the Rolling Stones look luck a bunch of choirboys”.
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In a poetic world, Byron would have died abandoned and alone, begging to see someone he loved...
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So he separated his daughter from her mother, abused the child ignored the mothers plea for her child and instead of giving the child back cause he got bored he decided to orphaned her? That’s beyond evil, cruel and heartless.
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I must say I'm disappointed to see that you left out the the vampire in Vampyre was directly based on Byron. Using his monstrous reputation to draw in women interested in the bad boy, thinking they could redeem him. Yet the Vampire, and Byron, may have had a second layer, but that was merely a façade: his true self was just as awful, soulless, and cruel as the surface suggested, and then some.
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Byron is still remembered as a hero in Greece. Statues and roads bearing his name are everywhere. Even an entire District in Athens is named after him. Thank you for this great video
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it always amazes me how well connected prominent people of the past really were...
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Re: Allegra Byron A lovelier toy sweet Nature never made; A serious, subtle, wild, yet gentle being; Graceful without design, and unforeseeing; With eyes – O speak not of her eyes! which seem Twin mirrors of Italian heaven, yet gleam With such deep meaning as we never see But in the human countenance. - Percy Bysshe Shelly
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I can't get over the part where his little girl was left to die alone. I was interested untill that point, but now I couldn't care less about anything he did. Absolute piece of s#$t
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Byron's poetry changed my entire concept of literature. I devoured his books as a teen and, at 80, can still today quote much of his poetry. He was a man of his time. Abused and abuser. Tragic for all concerned. But his words vibrate through the ages.
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He also had a child with his half sister. His legitimate daughter also died at 36. She had her fathers personality , addicted to laudinum and opium. Almost ruined by gambling trying to discover mathematical formulas for gambling. She also did the loose aristocracy bed hoping. So she was similar to her dad without the sexual abuse as a cause. It's a personality trait. Byron was also gonorrhea and syphilis riddled.
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Could you please do one on Mary Shelley, similar to how you did Bram Stoker. See how Frankenstein impacted Shelley’s life, as Dracula did Stoker’s?
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16:30 we have confirmation, "Simon has done so many video, he can't keep track." Lovelace is a must watch video.
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How anyone could neglect their child especially when they're sick is unthinkable to me as a father of 2. Don't get it.
