History Channel - Biography: Lord Byron 2/5

An episode of the series Biography on History Channel dedicated to Lord Byron and produced in 2004.

Category:

Education

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• Lord
• Byron
• biography
• 19th
• century
• literature
• documentary
• history
• channel
• poetry
• Charles
• Gordon

[henripche]

They make it seem as though he were just whiling away his time at Cambridge, but if you look at the volume and quality of his output, he must have had a far better work ethic than, say, your average modern-day rock star. Not only must it have taken a lot of time to write it all, but what about the efforts expended to obtain his vocabulary and command of foreign languages?

[ksotikoula]

You are right about this. Talent by itself is never enough. I guess Byron's dedication to his work had to do his need to express himself and when there is a will there is always a way to serve that will better :)

[henriqpat]

the soundtrack sucks, 5:22 wtf !?

[black4pienus]

@mofo316ok byron was an early quagmire I guess.... lol

[ad1997]

hang that fagget molester.

[diddims]

@mgore90 And Byron himself was two years older than John, so they were ages 16 and 18, about. And Byron's feelings for John were not exactly unrequited... yes, it sounds so perverse that two consenting adult males could be hanged and then the judge could go home and fuck a girl of twelve or thirteen.

[mofo316ok]

So was byron gay or bi or would he just fuck anybody like quagmire giggity giggity giggity giggity goo.

[LAMF420]

"cambridge also allowed byron to explore his burgeoning sexual desires"

I love this.

[mgore90]

@hallmonitor98

At the time that would have been beside the point as if they had known he was bisexual he would have been killed regardless. Also the Choir boy in question was 16 ( as is the current age of consent in Britain), at the time however, it was 12. Which makes me think, like wtf you would have killed Byron for a bit of bum fun, and then gone home after the hanging and fucked a 12 year old. Point is you can't judge past societies by the standards of today, only by your own morality

[glakshmiratan]

@ksotikoula

Byron was not dedicated--He was Satan--The fallen angel--He could have been as great as Homer, instead, he today is primarily known as a decadent, an interjection of the restoration rakes, and the decadents like Rimbaud, Verlaine, Wilde, etc...

[glakshmiratan]

@henripche While that....One must wonder if Manfred, or Don Juan would have been as brooding if he-- like Rimabud did not expend much effort on those things we considered vices...

[hallmonitor98]

So he was attracted to a choir boy but they never considered him a pedophile....