Lord Byron: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know

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[tophers]

The fact that Byron's little daughter asked for her father in her deathbed is crushing. That's the true tragedy

[areiaaphrodite]

Simon being surprised about Ada Lovelace being Lord Byron's daughter is hilarious because he did a Biographics video on her 3 years ago 😂😂

[ryastor]

That bit about his 5 year old dying begging to see her daddy got me crying. How horrible.

[-MarcusAurelius]

Fun fact: the Countess Teresa Guiccioli, that Byron had an affair with, is the character “the Countess in Alexandre Dumas’s novel The Count of Monte Cristo. The reason Dumas wrote her name as the “Countess is because it was extremely common for authors to be sued for libel back then, so by writing her name with a line he made it clear who she was to contemporary readers but without the risk of being sued.

[kristenmccaig]

Just wanted to let Simon know that the Ada Lovelace video was the first of his videos I ever watched and now I'm in an endless loop of Biographics, Geographics, Brain Blaze, Casual Criminalist ect.

[ionz]

In a poetic world, Byron would have died abandoned and alone, begging to see someone he loved...

[beatenbytheclown]

I had to study the poetry of Keats, Byron and Shelley when I was in school. I can barely remember a single line of any of it but the words that always stuck with me were those of my English teacher - “Byron makes the Rolling Stones look luck a bunch of choirboys”.

[Tmanowns]

I must say I'm disappointed to see that you left out the the vampire in Vampyre was directly based on Byron. Using his monstrous reputation to draw in women interested in the bad boy, thinking they could redeem him. Yet the Vampire, and Byron, may have had a second layer, but that was merely a façade: his true self was just as awful, soulless, and cruel as the surface suggested, and then some.

[Thebookishjamaican]

So he separated his daughter from her mother, abused the child ignored the mothers plea for her child and instead of giving the child back cause he got bored he decided to orphaned her? That’s beyond evil, cruel and heartless.

[spirosgreek]

Byron is still remembered as a hero in Greece. Statues and roads bearing his name are everywhere. Even an entire District in Athens is named after him. Thank you for this great video

[SoberOKMoments]

Byron's poetry changed my entire concept of literature. I devoured his books as a teen and, at 80, can still today quote much of his poetry. He was a man of his time. Abused and abuser. Tragic for all concerned. But his words vibrate through the ages.

[zaubermaus]

it always amazes me how well connected prominent people of the past really were...

[cathyb]

He may be one of Britain great poet, but he was also a monster. He died at 36 and this probably saved the lives of many people and who knows to other children.
Why removing this poor little girl from her mother to let her die without mercy in a convent....
Thanks for the video, it was really interesting.

[lallimj]

"He is the best known English poet next to Shakespeare." Really? Can anyone quote anything he wrote other than "So We'll Go No More a Roving'" and "She Walks in Beauty" (which is hard to stomach after knowing how he treated women)? Surely the works of Tennyson, Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelly (and Browning too) are more famous than he is now. If it weren't for the Libertine, "Rock Star" life-style, and the heroic Greek-warrior ending, he'd be a second-tier poet.

[wildborr]

I can't get over the part where his little girl was left to die alone. I was interested untill that point, but now I couldn't care less about anything he did. Absolute piece of s#$t

[kendrickoyola]

16:30 we have confirmation, "Simon has done so many video, he can't keep track." Lovelace is a must watch video.

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1:40 - Chapter 1 - The limping devil
4:45 - Chapter 2 - Boys & bards
8:10 - Mid roll ads
9:35 - Chapter 3 - The grand tour
13:05 - Chapter 4 - Walking in beauty
17:20 - Chapter 5 - Escape to the continent
20:40 - Chapter 6 - " A grand object"

[ginnrollins]

I once did a project on him back in high school. He was pretty much a proto-rock star. He may have been an outright bastard, but then again so is alot of famous historical figures, from Columbus to Mother Theresa.

Lord Byron: Pens a great 19th century equivalent of a diss track.

Ice Cube and Eminem: We should hang out sometime.

[bluebelle]

I'm sorry Simon's reaction to finding out Byron's daughter is Ada Lovelace is gold. So few people know for remember that tid bit. Ada was a genius that comes from her mother's intelligence and her father's creativity.

The story about Allegra is interesting. Putting the emotional hit aside because I so cannot deal with that right now. Percy Shelly was the one who visited her? From all that's said about him that feels out of place. Not in a bad way. That said by that point he had lost a child. There was likely some guilt involved there too.

[suchanhachan]

History is full of people who are remembered more benignly because of their accomplishments and fame. While average people might be considered strange, dangerous or even monstrous for their various behaviors, figures such as Byron are seen as "eccentric" or "tortured souls with a dark side". But sometimes we need to see them for what they truly were; weak, soulless assholes without the courage or decency to face the consequences of their actions...