Lord Byron’s Courage in a Crisis

The strange origins of his bravery and his style

Photo by Damiano Baschiera on Unsplash

I’ve always wanted to be like Lord Byron. He dressed well and he was brave in a crisis. When a ship in which he was a passenger threatened to run on the rocks during a storm, he left the sailing to the sailors. He wrapped himself in his big black cloak and went to sleep. He invented the Byronic hero via the autobiographical…