wing_of_eternity<p><a href="https://social.stealthy.club/tags/lord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lord</span></a> Byron <a href="https://social.stealthy.club/tags/why" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Why</span></a> would he be important nowadays?<br><br>Consider this, if you happen to be a metallica fan, and if you, for instance happen to like their thrashy-sounding albums, then we might be on the same page. They have grown extremely popular. I cannot say that all of their popularity is deserved. Now take the case of the star of Romanticism, when I say Lord, and I say Romantic poet, arh, you get it already, damn it! But why, what makes Byron such a figure now? Why would we after passing through so many epochs admire this Lord Byron? Good question. Is it the life he led? Is it the travels across Epirus and Albania, his Venetian life, his amorous life? Certainly that might appeal to some, yes. His incestuous relationship with Augusta? All of these, or none? Let's look to his poetry. Is it that original? Is it that vivid? Maybe neither; neither that original, nor that vivid.<br><br>Would Byron look distastefully at the fediverse? Who knows, I have no way of answering that.<br><br>One might reply in the following. Byron is the rebellious type, we admire him because he fought for Greece, what can I say? It was pure suicide. He achieved little there in truth. Byron is less what he was, but more what people thought he was. The myth swallow the historical byron—Byron the man. We don't know who Byron truely was. Who could tell us? Murray, who burned his diaries, and recollections, his fellow friend Thomas Moore, or Caroline Lamb, who was, as someone from the London Review of Books suggested, the 'fangirl of all fangirls'? No idea. No one knows, and one has the sense that it doesn't even matter. Byron was what people made him, the people around him. Whatever the case may be, Byron is gone, and no matter how much I am reading him, or reading about him, I cannot say how he truely was. By the way, can anyone please send me his detached thoughts? It is a journal he kept during his Italian travels starting from about 1820. It is available somewhere.<br><br>I am reading now In Byron's Footsteps, by Tessa de Loo, and in Chapter one, I think, she says that Don Juan had 35 cantos; that is incorrect. Other than that, I did not find any mistakes. She'd wish it had 35 cantos, wouldn't she:P</p>