![]() ![]() ![]() What's more, with a bit of tweaking, he could be made to stand for every subsequent bad-boy hero of popular history (James Dean owed the sixth Baron Byron more than he realised). Also crucial was the fact that for the previous eight years Byron had been somewhere else - usually hot, always exotic - which meant that it was easier to invent him than if he had been clumping round Piccadilly diddling his creditors.īyron could have been forged on the Romantic template of the day (or perhaps, indeed, he was that template) - the authentic voice crying in the wilderness, the voluntary exile from the mediocrity of so-called civilised society. ![]() There was the peerage, the ruined pile of Newstead Abbey, the soft face on the spoiled body, the deranged lovers and the intermittently brilliant poetry. ![]()
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