Tell me about Lord Byron, /lit/
Why was he an important figure for romanticism?
Why was he famous?
>>7876286
He curled his hair while he slept to achieve luscious locks
Byron here
AMA
>>7876295
fuck off cockroach
>>7876291
What a beautiful man
n-no homo
>>7876286
He lead the turks against the ottomans or something for a start
Just go read his fucking wiki page you lazy shit
>>7876336
>reading wiki
>>7876286
Im just reading Don Juan.
Pretty good. There is some edition with a lot footnotes to make clear a lot of stuff.
>>7876583
How lengthy is Don Juan?
he was great because he was skeptical of "Mr. Turdsworth and the pond poets" and brought romanticism back in line with the poetic tradition of Pope and Johnson
also because that man had some serious talent
I still don't like him as much as Wordsworth or Coleridge, both of whom were greater geniuses. Still, he was a great poet.
>>7876844
Some say he was over eight inches.
>>7876286
>Why was he an important figure for romanticism?
Byronic heroes probably would be named something else if he hadn't come along.
>>7876844
17 cantos, the longest one has 80-90 pages. the others are around 40-50.
check it out:
https://petercochran.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/don_juan_canto_1.pdf
>>7876286
He used to drink wine out of a skull.
>>7877088
False, it would have spilled out of the eye sockets
>>7877118
They were plugged with rubies.
>>7877088
