>It would have pleased Lord Byron to know that, having been the most renowned, imitated, and execrated of the major romantic poets, he is now, almost two centuries later, the least honored and the most ignored and deplored of that select few. >He was a sexy, swaggering contrarian whose wisecrack answer to the earnest inquiry of Concerned Virtue, "What are you rebelling against?" would have been the same as Marlon Brando's: "What have ya got?"
What do we think of him, Veeky Forums?
Quoting from the introduction to a Byron collection
Luke Lewis
I used to look up to him in high school desu. Deep down, I still hold him in high respect.
Jayden Wilson
was surprised and disappointed by Don Juan's mediocrity. read canto 1, felt like i was reading a cute 'witty' piece in an old newspaper, full of impotent genial humor and dated topical references. rather un-aristocratic for someone named LORD byron
Noah Peterson
It's satire, bro.
Carson Ortiz
I've literally only heard of Byron in the context of Traci Byron incest porn. >tfw only read metaphysics
Jace Taylor
You've never come across the adjective "Byronic"?
Lincoln Sanchez
He was the greatest poet, not just because of his poetry, but because half his 'art' was in his life.
My favorite moment is when he was sitting at a table of upper-class people, he said, out of nowhere, "I wonder how many here are being true to themselves?"
Then there's this account from his wife "One night, coming home from one of his lawless parties, he saw me so indignantly collected, and bearing all with such a determined calmness, that a rush of remorse seemed to come over him. He called himself a monster, though his sister was present, and threw himself in agony at my feet. Astonished at the return of virtue, my tears, I believe, flowed over his face, and I said, 'Byron, all is forgotten: never, never, shall you hear of it more!' He started up, and, folding his arm while he looked at me, burst into laughter. 'What do you mean?' said I. 'Only a philosophical experiment; that's all,' said he. 'I wished to ascertain the value of your resolutions."
Ethan Thomas
Blake did it better, sorry to tell you.
Julian Williams
>Blake did it better, sorry to tell you. You didn't, so do tell
Ethan Cook
Are the majority of his poems rhymes?
Jason Flores
sounds like jaden smith
Nolan Watson
I got pretty into the archetype of the Byronic hero my sophomore year of college. It really resonated with my emotional life at the time, and I was convinced that it made me irresistible to women. I was pretty handsome back then, in the androgynous way of Byron, but I was too much of a sperg to put it to good use. It sure is fun to go through and read old conversations though.
Caleb Reed
German Romanticism >>> Britbong Romanticism
Ethan Watson
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William Reyes
>he didn't read the 11th canto >he didn't read one of Bloom's favorite verses in the English language twogirlslaughingatyou.jpg
Gavin Nelson
What I like about the phases of German Romanticism is that much of it is still painfully relevant. Just reread Novalis' Hymnen an die Nacht gestern abend.
Nicholas Young
>hitchens
Joseph Baker
German idealism >>>>>> britbong idealism
Jack Scott
I love Byron, Childe Harold's wonderfully fresh, and DJ's great if one deigns to read it through. The little lyrics are sweet but on point, the dramatic poems hit or miss but the poetry's always THERE. I always return and probably always will, but I rank him neither first nor second. Wordsworth, then Shelley.
Carson Evans
best tradition hands down, heavily influenced english romantics, and Nietzsche, Wagner and Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Mann (even Marx) can be seen as spiritual successors of romantic golden age
Jack Martinez
He was better than Keats at least. That guy was such a whiny cunt.
