Lord Byron: The Perils and Glories of a Classical Education...

Lord Byron: The Perils and Glories of a Classical Education

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“While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. ‘What good will it do you,’ they asked, ‘to know this tune before you die?’” — from “Why Read the Classics?,” in The Uses of Literature (trans. Patrick Creagh)

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Byronic Hero: "a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart—a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection"

- Lord Macaulay

Christiansen, Rupert (1989). Romantic Affinities: Portraits from an Age, 1780–1830. London: Cardinal. ISBN 0-7474-0404-6. Retrieved 2025-09-24.

“Mad, bad, and dangerous to know" was coined by the Anglo-Irish aristocrat and novelist Lady Caroline Lamb to describe the Romantic poet Lord Byron, with whom she had a passionate and scandalous love affair in 1812.

Edward Rochester is a byronic hero