#Lord byron

[lord-byrons-ghost]

Mind if I join the festivities? Drinking and gallivanting sounds like a Romantic celebration indeed - especially if accompanied by witty acwuaintance.

My birthday is approaching far quicker than I’d expected… Should I be doing something to prepare? It is my 215th…

[burningvelvet]

a twitter thread that actually killed me

[supfag]

PERCY SHELLEY & LORD BYRON MARY SHELLEY (2017)

[dzgrizzle]

[victusinveritas]

[respected-coconut]

Being really into Frankenstein while at the same time being Chinese is so funny because every time Lord Byron gets brought up, the way his name is pronounced always makes me think of the word 白人 (bái rén), which translates into “white guy”. Lord White Guy.

[xanthickee]

[jstor]

🎃 Ever wonder how Frankenstein and The Vampyre came to life? It all began during the stormy summer of 1816, a time so eerie it’s now called the "Year Without a Summer." Confined indoors by relentless rain, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori challenged each other to write the scariest story they could. What followed was nothing short of legendary: Shelley’s Frankenstein—a tale of ambition, creation, and consequence—and Polidori’s The Vampyre, the first modern vampire story that still haunts us today.

These works explore themes we still grapple with—ambition, relationships, power, and the unknown. And they remind us of what the humanities do best: helping us ask the big questions about who we are and how we live together.

This Halloween, revisit these iconic stories and reflect on how literature challenges us to confront our fears—both real and imagined. Check out our latest blog post to explore the spirit of Villa Diodati and the enduring importance of these tales.

Read it now on the JSTOR blog.

[prokopetz]

I read your post that contained the sentence "Fundamentally, the thing that was wrong with Lord Byron is that he was a poet" and I feel like I had an existential crisis as my mind tried to grapple with "the thing", singular, that was wrong with Lord Byron.

(With reference to this post here.)

It helps to understand that the idea of the "artistic temperament" – i.e., the notion that Artists are a specific, biologically distinct Type of Guy – was very much in vogue during the Regency. This is the era that spawned phrenology in its modern form, after all; such notions were going around! The idea that all of the various things that were wrong with Lord Byron were ultimately attributable to the singular cause of "being a poet" would have been viewed, at least by some, as perfectly plausible, at the time.

[petaltexturedskies]

Lord Byron, "She Walks in Beauty" from Hebrew Melodies

[imagine-dragonlords]

Stanzas to Jessy by Lord Byron

The moment I read this poem, it screamed Merlin & Arthur to me ( "a mystic thread of life"; "Destiny's relentless knife"; "they cannot part - those Souls are One" I mean... come on?) My new headcanon: Merlin met Byron while waiting for Arthur and inspired this poem.

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Ladies of Llangollen

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers Shelley: what's going on here Lord Byron: [tossing hair] ah mary what a vision you are Lord Byron: [tossing hair] percy and i were just about to visit the ladies of llangollen Shelley: why are my boyfriends sneaking around together behind my back

Mary Shelley: what the hell is this ladies of llangollen bullshit Lord Byron: [tossing hair] ah see mary it's a most curious thing Byron: [tossing hair] two women living together Byron: [tossing hair] science simply can't explain it Mary Shelley: they're lesbians byron

Byron: [tossing hair] no see it's these 2 women living together Byron: [tossing hair] and their lady servant too Byron: [tossing hair] explain that! Mary Shelley: what's so hard to understand? it's a fuckin polycule Mary Shelley: we're literally in one

Lord Byron: [tossing hair] lesbians? Byron: [tossing hair] oh ho ho only cuz they haven't met me yet! Byron: [tossing hair] isn't that right percy old man? Percy Shelley: yes dear

Byron: [tossing hair] now we're off! Mary Shelley: why're you going all the way to llangollen Mary Shelley: we got perfectly good lesbians at home Byron: [tossing hair] what? Mary Shelley: you heard me fucker

Mary Shelley: byron are you just going to llangollen to hide from your ex girlfriend Byron: [tossing hair] ha ha mary what a ridiculous notion Byron: [tossing hair] ha ha just uh Byron: [tossing hair] ridiculous

Mary Shelley: so it wouldn't bother you if caroline lamb also visited the ladies of llangollen then Byron: [tossing hair] it wouldn't bother me at all Byron: [pausing mid hair toss] why? is she there? what did you hear?

[at llangollen] Byron: [tossing hair] delightfully devilish byron, caroline lamb will never think to look for you here Caroline Lamb: [barging into llangollen] WHERE'S BYRON Lamb: I KNOW HE'S HERE Lamb: DON'T YOU LESBIANS LIE TO ME Lamb: I CAN SMELL HIS AXE BODY SPRAY

William Wordsworth: i was so inspired by those ladies of llangollen that i wrote a sonnet about them Wordsworth: "there once was a girl from nantucket..." Mary Shelley: that's not a fuckin sonnet Wordsworth: uh excuse me i think i know sonnets

[burningvelvet]

Locks of hair from Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron, next to their portraits:

[metamorphesque]

Lord Byron, Lara, A Tale (1814), Canto II, Stanza 22

[shelleysbysshe]

Please remember that Contessa Guiccioli, Byron's lover while he was in Ravenna, wrote her Recollections of Lord Byron after he died and these are some of the chapters:

[enlitment]

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Parts of it are very cringe but parts of it - well, still cringe, but worth sharing I think