"Byron" By Jonny Lee Miller produced by the BBC

[Red Terror]

http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/images%5Clarger%5C01976.jpg

Face it, the British have so many fine writers, poets, and playwrights. Byron and the Shelleys are just three. They left a brilliant legacy!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYFWOUk_I1k

[Dreamwoven]

I've never thought of Byron as a revolutionary, but somewhere on this website there is a thread asking if anyone has memorised poems - http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?84612-have-you-memorised-poems-books-etc-and-if-so-why&p=1317045#post1317045. Byron's Prisoner of Chillon is such a poem for me.

[Red Terror]

I've never thought of Byron as a revolutionary, but somewhere on this website there is a thread asking if anyone has memorised poems - http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?84612-have-you-memorised-poems-books-etc-and-if-so-why&p=1317045#post1317045. Byron's Prisoner of Chillon is such a poem for me.


WTF???? Then what the devil was he doing in Greece just before he died??? Was he just chasing boys???

[Procneus]

I started reading the Lyrical Ballads a bit more after starting to watch the "Penny Dreadful" series on Netflix. Had read some of them before, namely the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. With both Shelleys and Byron, Wordsworth and Coleridge are surely worth mentioning as well!

[Jackson Richardson]

WTF???? Then what the devil was he doing in Greece just before he died??? Was he just chasing boys???

He was fighting with the Greeks in their armed struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire. He died in the process. I take it, Red Terror, you would approve of armed struggle against imperialism

[Pompey Bum]

He was fighting with the Greeks in their armed struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire. He died in the process. I take it, Red Terror, you would approve of armed struggle against imperialism

We're splitting hairs again, JR, but I believe Byron died of dysentery (so much for romanticism) before seeing any actual fighting. The Greeks are said to have appreciated his sacrifice, though, and to have buried his heart in the soil of Hellas. I don't know if that part of the story is true, but from a Byronic perspective ought to be.

[Jackson Richardson]

I didn't say he died fighting. In Patrick Leigh Fermor's travel books about his time in Greece, he is repeatedly told how much the Greeks admire "Vyron".

[Red Terror]

He was fighting with the Greeks in their armed struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire. He died in the process. I take it, Red Terror, you would approve of armed struggle against imperialism

I know that. The question I posed was meant to be rhetorical.

[Pompey Bum]

I didn't say he died fighting.

I didn't say you did, JR. But he didn't fight at all, and you did say "He was fighting with the Greeks." We wasn't, although he did serve with them. Anyone know if the story about the heart is true?