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Byron's poetic licence with his homeland
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MAD, bad and dangerous to know. Lady Caroline Lamb's epithet has
gone down as the defining image of Lord Byron. But with all his
incarnations - dandy, romantic hero, poetic genius, sex maniac - what
was Byron really like? In the wake of a new biography, an exhibition
transferring to Edinburgh from London, sheds more light than it might
perhaps presume on an apparently familiar figure.
Born in 1788, down-at-heel aristocrat George Gordon inherited his
title aged 10. Educated at Harrow a...
