“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
-Lord Byron: George Gordon Byron {6th Baron Byron}
ON THIS DAY, SOME MIGHT SAY. . .
A GENIUS
was born.
Others may just call him a MAD MAN.
+LORD BYRON+
–+Lord Byron {Jan 22 1788 – April 19 1824}+–
Byronic [ bahy-ron-ik ]
adjective
of or relating to Lord Byron.
possessing the characteristics of Byron or his poetry, especially romanticism, melancholy, and melodramatic energy.
Regarded as one of the most important English poets, as well as a leader of the Romantic Movement of the early 19th Century. . . he was a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, a politician, as well as a major celebrity of the time!
Indeed, before Beatlemania – there was “BYRONMANIA”, as described by his own wife Annabella. Self-aware to the max, and huge proponent of personal promotion- his celebrity was equivalent to that of a modern day rock star of the time.
As an Aquarius, it is no surprise that he was extremely odd and eccentric about certain things. He had a fascination for the macabre and stories tell of him having a coffin at the dining table of his family’s Gothic manor, as well as collecting the skulls of animals which he proudly displayed in an enormous shooting gallery. He also loved to drink out of a monkey skull turned into an elaborate chalice…so they say.
His antics were legendary, however, as much as he enjoyed the spotlight, he retired to a self imposed exile from Britain later in his life. . . how Byronic.
He knew himself a villain—but he deem’d
The rest no better than the thing he seem’d;
And scorn’d the best as hypocrites who hid
Those deeds the bolder spirit plainly did.
He knew himself detested, but he knew
The hearts that loath’d him, crouch’d and dreaded too.
Lone, wild, and strange, he stood alike exempt
From all affection and from all contempt:
“The Corsair” (1814) by Lord Byron
“I love not man the less, but Nature more”
-Lord Byron: George Gordon Byron {6th Baron Byron}
One of the most outrageous things the notorious playboy did in his life, you will get a kick out of!
Back in the 1800s, it was quite customary for lovers to keep mementos of their love of letters, drawings, even a lock of hair – however, Byron took this to the extreme and kept clippings of each lovers pubic hairs and kept them in labeled envelopes in his library for safe keeping…
Now that’s Byronic!
{also…AQUARIUS, much?}
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Below is a little style inspo gallery in the Byronic Hero fashion….
“Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull”
-LORD BYRON
That man of loneliness and mystery,
Scarce seen to smile, and seldom heard to sigh— (I, VIII)The Corsair (1814)
ISN’T IT BYRONIC? DON’T YOU THINK?
A LITTLE TOO BYRONIC….YEA, I REALLY DO THINK!
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