And I refuse to believe he was gay
>>25018889Bisexual
>>25018889byron was a faggot and a pedo. his only ""contribution""" in greece was to open the first brothel in nafplio
>>25018914This. There are two subtypes of bi men: terminally horny guys with extremely high opinions of themselves, and the guys who are crippled with autism, self doubt, or cringy memories
He was pretty gay
>>25018943>the guys who are crippled with autism, self doubt, or cringy memoriesThat's a very weird projection to make on a dead guy.
>>25019003No! He's the first type! At least two of my friends are the second type. Cellini is another of the first type, per his autobiography
He was a supbar poet more famous for his life than his actual poetry.It's telling when you have threads on here and discussions about byron and literally nothing is about his poetry and all the discussion is about his personal life.
>>25019018It's too specific not to be you.You like penis, you're autistic, these are facts.
>>25019023Don Juan is funny. Amusing. I wouldn't call it GREAT literature, though. It's not Milton, it's not Keats, either.Honestly Manfred might be Byron's greatest work in terms of the power of its verse.
>>25018943second type here. i love byron because he was the original fujoshi-bait
>>25019033I‘d place Childe Harold‘s Pilgrimage as his masterpiece of non-dramatic poetry. Don Juan suffers hard from losing focus in the later cantos while CHP remains focused throughout on the romantic ethos of witnessing great lands and ancient cultures as a vehicle for inner experience.
>>25019026No, half my friends are either gay, autistic, or both so I have a lot of experience with those types. Believe whatever you want though
>>25019117>It's not my autism and homosexuality mom I'm holding it for a friend.
>>25019176Yeah you're wrong, I'm OCD and architecture, autism and homosexuality is two doors down on the left
>>25019033>Honestly Manfred might be Byron's greatest work in terms of the power of its verse.It seems to me a lot of Byron's reputation hinged on his dramas in the 19th century and now nobody reads them. I don't think a single person on /lit/ has ever mentioned The Deformed Transformed.
>>25019188>another fatchad on /lit/based
>>25018889BTFO by Lamartine
>>25019023Byron's poetic greatness lies in two things: giving expression to his inimitable individuality such that it becomes universal subject matter for literature, and being a superb satirist in the long tradition of satirical English poetry. Certainly, he was not a very musically refined poet, but his abilities were serviceable.
>>25019023I made a similar point in a another thread, which had the cover of English Romantic poets' complete works in the OP. All of them featured a landscape painting instead of Byron's, which featured his heckin handsome side profile portrait so that angsty women could read him with one hand down their pants.
>>25018889I was going to make a post about Byron. It is very informative that /lit/ has no interest in Byron, and if they do only in his personal life. Goethe and Schopenhauer both considered him the second greatest British poetic talent behind Shakespeare, and they were right. >>25019033 I wouldn't call it GREAT literature, though. It's not Milton, it's not Keats, either.Ridiculous. Byron is 100x superior to Keats. And it doesn't matter one bit in Swinburne was right that often he was a singer who couldn't sing.
>>25019678He managed to represent and carry himself in such a compelling manner as to enter the lexicon as his very own eponymous archetype.
>>25018914they make good art
“They then talked about the necessity of my learning English, and Goethe earnestly advised me to do so, particularly on account of Lord Byron; saying, that a character of such eminence had never existed before, and probably would never come again.
I have nothing but envy and spite for charismatic people. Fuck this dude.
>>25018889Percy Shelley was right. These fruits are worthless and contribute nothing.
>>25020011why did he let his wife take the credit for Frankenstein
