>In 19th century England, the poet Lord Byron used a skull his gardener had found at Newstead Abbey as a drinking vessel. "There had been found by the gardener, in digging, a skull that had probably belonged to some jolly monk or friar of the Abbey, about the time it was demonasteried. Observing it to be of giant size, and in a perfect state of preservation, a strange fancy seized me of having it set and mounted as a drinking cup. I accordingly sent it to town, and it returned with a very high polish and of a mottled colour like tortoiseshell". Byron even wrote a darkly witty drinking poem as if inscribed upon it, “Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull”.[10] The cup, filled with claret, was passed around "in imitation of the Goths of old", among the Order of the Skull that Byron founded at Newstead, "whilst many a grim joke was cut at its expense", Byron recalled to Thomas Medwin
In 19th century England, the poet Lord Byron used a skull his gardener had found at Newstead Abbey as a drinking vessel...
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Not cool Byron lad
The original fookin legend
>After the party, all involved engaged in sodomy and free verse, after which political discussion was engaged in, and three duels fought. A fine time was had by all.
Tibetans do this.
So what?
Byron was not a Tibetan, nor did he live in Tibet.
>muh cultural appropriation
have a look around in your encyclopaedia of knowledge for memento mori, pleb.
sometimes a skull cup is just a skull cup
>savages do it so it's okay
>tfw allegra byron is buried at my church
Why is romanticism so edgy?
They pull it off though.
It was a necessary reaction to the enlightenment and IR
Symbolism pulled it off better
Go steal his skull and drink wine on it
i'll use yours as a bidet, prole.
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Hush, we're trying to discuss literature in here.
Byron was the Russell Brand of the Romantics
Keep it up man, go on, im laughing over here, laughing at how little we respect you
shut the fuck up man go with dat nerd shit somewhere else niga
>we
Are you a Royal?
im god and if you don't want your mother to die in her sleep tonight then you shouldn't have read that.
Lord Byron was the worst Romantic poet by far.
who were the best?
what is a god to a nonbeliever?
In the Anglo world, Coleridge, Wordsworth Keats
Looks like a pain in the ass to actually drink out of.
kill yourself you contrarian faggot
why is there not more symbolist literature?
>contrarian
Even in his time, nobody liked Byron except for the Germans. He was adolescent. He only got popular by the strength of his personality (and the sensational rumors around him) than any poetic merit.
Is this one of these memes where having an ordinary opinion is contrarian now
Byron - Muh Goblet
>Fill the goblet again, for I never before
>Felt the glow that now gladdens my heart to its core:
>Let us drink - who would not? since thro' life's varied round
>In the goblet alone no deception is found.
Keats is the best poet of the English Romantics, IMO.