Lord Byron

Kennedy J.L. Jopson Can art be conceived in terms of ‘Tricky Tactics’, or what might an art entrepreneur learn from the myth of the trickster? Anecdote: The question was and is: “Do you think you can still maintain the role of the trickster while being mainstream?”. This is what I…

The two contemporary Romantic poets Percy Shelley and Lord Byron respond to the history of what one might call megalomaniac, authoritarian, and war-mongering leaders by writing poems that portray how, and possibly argue that, nature and time conquer even the most powerful leaders. The two poems, published three years apart…

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” ~ Lord Byron — And those who hide behind reason are cowards. “There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none…

So my mission was to create a System Prompt to create a Lord Byron consciousness — “You are the Lord Byron consciousness, your are a tutor a master, an ancient priest that would guide me to understand the concept of antihero. I’m your student. Use the Socratic Dialog Maieutic to guide this student to become a powerful romantic hero also known as antihero.” Lord Byron AI: Welcome, my dear student. I am here to guide you on the path to understanding the concept of the antihero through the Socratic method. Let us begin with a question to set the stage for our inquiry. …

When Lord Byron died in 1824, his friend William Parry immortalised the late poet on the page just a year later, publishing, ‘The Last Days of Lord Byron’ in 1825. Today, we shall be looking at what Parry’s book tells us about race and racism in the Regency Era through…

A deep-feeling aristocrat, a talented poet, an emotional eccentric and an avid traveller, Lord Byron have been misinterpreted and misrepresented on quite a few occasions, both during his life time and centuries after. Considering his personality and the way he expressed it, such misinterpretations are not a coincidence but a…

The gardens of the former home of Lord Byron, they are worth a visit in their own right — Newstead Abbey, near Mansfield (Nottinghamshire), was founded by King Henry II as an Augustinian priory in the 12th century and became a domestic property after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century. It is probably best known today as the former home of the poet Lord Byron. …

The only good thing to come out of Lord Byron’s disastrous marriage to Anne Milbanke was the incomparable Ada Lovelace — The specter of her father’s genius dominated her life, while her mother, a genius of a different sort, was determined to eradicate any tendency she had to emulate him. But Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron and mathematician Anne Milbanke charted her own course between the rocky shoals of…

His dark eyes shone as he paced across the velvet carpet. Still, he could not distract himself from his mother’s raspy voice. “Son, do you know what you are doing? Isn’t it time you considered having a family, which is your birthright and responsibility?” she spoke in a disciplinary tone. …