Once or twice a year I will hear or watch something so good and educational that I have to stop working or driving and just absorb like a sponge. This was one of those programs. Congratulations on an amazing show!
I've been hooked on this series on Byron. A wealth of fascinating material and insight, exceptionally handled and presented. Im going to finally tackle Childe Harold and Don Juan. Many thanks to you both 😊
I bet Byron was what is called a psychic vampire. Someone who.feeds off the health and energy of others appearing to rise in health and spirits as they decline. We've all met one such person at least I think.
As a 21c person educated in the British classical education system, I find it so easy to be less shocked by Byron's behaviour, given the reprehensible activities of public figures today,. I remember Byron's description of the sea off Cape Sounion at early sunset as being "deep wine-red". Later I travelled to Greece from NZ to see for myself and it was true indeed. I also found Byron's initials carved into one of the columns of the lovely temple located there. I now realise this desecration of an ancient monument being an example of Byron's monumental narcissism.
When I was a teen I recall this one goth guy who we hung around sometimes. I was reading some random book. I asked him if he liked whatever book it was and he said, "I only read BYRON!" My friend and I laughed about this for years as it was so extremely pretentious and a classic goth teen thing to say.
I’ve just discovered this site. I listen to podcasts and audiobooks to send me to sleep as a cure for insomnia. Cumberbatch reading Sherlock Holmes works in 5 minutes flat, but you guys are so interesting and well presented that you actually kept me awake! The Byron story was amazing! Now I’ve subscribed and will save you for when I’m working in the garden. Back to cumberbatch for insomnia😂
Wonderful series. Thank you. I love the pleasure with which Tom reveals every lascivious detail! Would that there had been more like Byron. History would be much more interesting! Greetings from Hucknall, Nottinghamshire - just 10 mins walk from the great man's resting place.
In my imagination Byron is kept company by John Wilmot Early of Rochester, the young John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, and when the mood takes him the early 17th century playwright John Ford.
I've just discovered this channel. What a wonderful dialogue....you really bring this 200 year old story to life. I will search out the other 496 episodes forthwith....though I feel Byron will be hard to match!
Absolutely brilliant, educational and entertaining, as usual. There were lots of mad, bad and dangerous lads in Essex when I grew up in the 70s but minus the poetry and romance.
The same leftism right up to today that chants “Death to the West” and praises beheaders and communist dictators and tears down civilization. But that happens if people are morally inverted.
So many echoes of Byron in modern culture. Celebrity, scandal, the links to the tales of Dracula and of Frankenstein, and of course, the Byronic anti-hero. Great series, thanks.
Brilliant series. I've always heard about Byron of course ,but never knew his story. No matter what he did he lived a very full life ,you can't fault him for that. Quite amazing really.
I'm hooked too. In fact this is my second round of listening to the complete four hours series. Fiona M.'s book will be next. Today I was checking Lord Byron's posterity. Fascinating. Greetings from Germany, and thanks for the great work!
Has to be one of the best deep dives into Byron in history. Delicious, horrifying, detailed......a trainereck you can't stop watching. Been waiting for this, binged watched the first 3 Episodes earlier this week. I've got an hour and a half til I need to be in a work meeting. Traffic is annoying but I'm all in. Oh, I subscribed, of coarse. Much love, and admiration. I thought I had a past!?!? Byron is a tornado ripping through Europe, lol. Deeply moving heroism displayed by the end! Fanatic job guys! You are so fun. Indefinitely yours! Marvelous, thrilling, terrific; I simply could not stop listening!
Fantastic series, gentlemen! The best I've come across in a very long time! Mr. Holland, I bought Lord of the Dead when it first came out and it remains one of my favourites!
My Dad lived in gorgeous Italian place called Lerici, as Did Byron, in a gorgeous white house on the coast road & within crawling distance of the nearest tavern. The sea there is called the "Golfo del Poetico", so these guys certainly made an impact!!!
I have really enjoyed this series. I am curious about how Byron actually became so famous. There was no Internet, radio, television, or glossy magazines. Was it all word of mouth?
I wonder if Byron is a much better character to study,than a poet.Presume he was a decent husband,father,brother,friend,but wrote the same poems. How darkness and filth is worshiped!
Isn't it more likely that Alba, the Shelley's pet name for Byron (and the proposed name for Clair's child), is a reference to Byron's Scottishness, and his Scottish hinterlands. Alba being Scotland. Maybe not ! It seems more likely though?
I really enjoy this podcast but i don't understand the fascination quth this man. 4 and a half episodes in Dominic says hes only thirty but has done so much in that time. He went to Greece on holiday, wrote some poetry and was a serious creep, what am I missing?
Avoidant attachment and compulsive behaviour? Being drunk all the time would disinhibit him. Bad boy genes and an insecure upbringing, no good father figure. I actually feel quite sorry for him.
The author Kay Redfield Jamison declares that Lord Byron suffered from bipolar 1 disease in her book “Touched By Fire”. That book is worth reading. She is a respected psychiatrist who has written extensively on mental illness. I’m surprised Tom doesn’t mention Byron’s mental illness.
@Nannas-cp5nd I have read all her books and articles. She is a psychiatrist here at ucla and a person who suffers from bi polar illness. I find her writings accurate and medically interesting. I like her book about artists, was it named Touched by Fire? I can believe Byron had a form of mania during the time of his many sexual escapades.
@Nannas-cp5nd I do not think you are right about Redfield Jameson’s motive. She has written about many well known artists. She wrote accurate and helpful books about her own mental illness. She speaks to doctors and the public about mental illness. I believe she is sincere.
Yes when reading to the poem it’s specifically “Don Joo-an” to rhyme correctly, Byron was very clear about that and it’s not the only mispronunciation joke in the poem 😊.
Lord Byron, the Gary Glitter of the Nineteenth Century. If he was working class he would have been banged up and left to rot, but he was posh and wrote poetry, so the British love him.
Once or twice a year I will hear or watch something so good and educational that I have to stop working or driving and just absorb like a sponge. This was one of those programs. Congratulations on an amazing show!
I've been hooked on this series on Byron. A wealth of fascinating material and insight, exceptionally handled and presented. Im going to finally tackle Childe Harold and Don Juan. Many thanks to you both 😊
I bet Byron was what is called a psychic vampire. Someone who.feeds off the health and energy of others appearing to rise in health and spirits as they decline.
We've all met one such person at least I think.
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A classic narcissist?
What a marvelous series; intellectually stimulating, never pedantic, and humorous as well!! Kudos to you both!!
I couldn't agree more.
As a 21c person educated in the British classical education system, I find it so easy to be less shocked by Byron's behaviour, given the reprehensible activities of public figures today,. I remember Byron's description of the sea off Cape Sounion at early sunset as being "deep wine-red". Later I travelled to Greece from NZ to see for myself and it was true indeed. I also found Byron's initials carved into one of the columns of the lovely temple located there. I now realise this desecration of an ancient monument being an example of Byron's monumental narcissism.
When I was a teen I recall this one goth guy who we hung around sometimes. I was reading some random book. I asked him if he liked whatever book it was and he said, "I only read BYRON!" My friend and I laughed about this for years as it was so extremely pretentious and a classic goth teen thing to say.
I love that. It’s wonderful to have that kind of shorthand with a friend!!😂
Outstanding coverage of Byron. I loved all four episodes!
This series is unbelievably good, that the rapport between the hosts is second to none.
I’ve just discovered this site. I listen to podcasts and audiobooks to send me to sleep as a cure for insomnia. Cumberbatch reading Sherlock Holmes works in 5 minutes flat, but you guys are so interesting and well presented that you actually kept me awake! The Byron story was amazing! Now I’ve subscribed and will save you for when I’m working in the garden. Back to cumberbatch for insomnia😂
This series was captivating. I thought I knew much about Byron. I did not. Thank you - it was wonderful.
I had no idea who Lord Byron was but my goodness am i hooked on your channel. I am learning so much!
Wonderful series. Thank you. I love the pleasure with which Tom reveals every lascivious detail! Would that there had been more like Byron. History would be much more interesting!
Greetings from Hucknall, Nottinghamshire - just 10 mins walk from the great man's resting place.
In my imagination Byron is kept company by John Wilmot Early of Rochester, the young John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, and when the mood takes him the early 17th century playwright John Ford.
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That looks like the right list.
I've just discovered this channel. What a wonderful dialogue....you really bring this 200 year old story to life. I will search out the other 496 episodes forthwith....though I feel Byron will be hard to match!
This might be my favourite series yet. Thank you!
Absolutely brilliant, educational and entertaining, as usual. There were lots of mad, bad and dangerous lads in Essex when I grew up in the 70s but minus the poetry and romance.
The same leftism right up to today that chants “Death to the West” and praises beheaders and communist dictators and tears down civilization. But that happens if people are morally inverted.
I am binge watching these videos, thank you for presenting them with humour. What a life he lived
Thank you. Have been watching this series from Alaska.
Brilliant.
A truly excellent series - most entertaining & informative ! 👍👍
Thank you for this wonderful biopic. Beautifully presented.
What a wonderful journey into the shadows and the sun of Lord Byron. You have both done extremely well.
Great series on Byron. I'm surprised you didn't mention the story of Edward Trelawney taking Shelley's heart of the fire.
What a wonderful podcast. I knew nothing of Lord Byron and am so glad to have learned so much from your podcast.
I've always known the name but known nothing about the name. 4 rivetting episodes that brought Lord Byron to life. 👍🇿🇦
Yes! This stuff is gold!
Thank you
Amazing series guys, very enjoyable!
So many echoes of Byron in modern culture. Celebrity, scandal, the links to the tales of Dracula and of Frankenstein, and of course, the Byronic anti-hero. Great series, thanks.
Brilliant series. I've always heard about Byron of course ,but never knew his story. No matter what he did he lived a very full life ,you can't fault him for that. Quite amazing really.
Thank you for this wonderful biopic. Beautifully presented. ❤
I'm hooked too. In fact this is my second round of listening to the complete four hours series.
Fiona M.'s book will be next.
Today I was checking Lord Byron's posterity. Fascinating.
Greetings from Germany, and thanks for the great work!
Very entertaining (and informative). Thank you!
Very much enjoyed the series, many thanks for sharing
So looking forward to this episode I am so griped m! Well done guys I wish you both had taught me history, I am now obsessed thank you
For those interested, Allan Barton - The Antiquary, has recently produced a video 'The Peculiar Secrets of Lord Byron's Burial Vault' on RUclips.
Thankyou for a stupendous series!
Fascinating,would like to see a podcast about Coleridge one day.
Has to be one of the best deep dives into Byron in history. Delicious, horrifying, detailed......a trainereck you can't stop watching. Been waiting for this, binged watched the first 3
Episodes earlier this week. I've got an hour and a half til I need to be in a work meeting. Traffic is annoying but I'm all in. Oh, I subscribed, of coarse. Much love, and admiration. I thought I had a past!?!? Byron is a tornado ripping through Europe, lol. Deeply moving heroism displayed by the end! Fanatic job guys! You are so fun. Indefinitely yours! Marvelous, thrilling, terrific; I simply could not stop listening!
Thank you. Wonderful.
I love the podcast. Is there any way you guys could do a recommended books/films/TV on the subject at hand?
Fantastic series. Thanks
This is the type of people I enjoy the most.
This was great and deserves waaayyy more views
Fantastic series, gentlemen! The best I've come across in a very long time! Mr. Holland, I bought Lord of the Dead when it first came out and it remains one of my favourites!
Thanks!
The true test of friendship.
1. Would you keep my skull (after I died)?
2. Well, I would if it wasn't cracked by a spade.
Hilarious!
Thank you! Very interesting and entertaining
Awesome.
Excellent, thank you both
Way to go! Don't let someone get away with just naming opposite things! It's the laziest form of trying to seem creative and intelligent.
Brilliant!
Fascinating 😮 From
Byron Bay, idyllic, most easterly point of mainland Australia ☝️♥️✌️🌍🙏
'He has with him two stepsisters'. What can possibly go wrong.
Everything about this videos is perfect.
Learning so much from you gentlemen. A bit to much so this and so that.
Wonderful 4 part series, many thanks, p
Wonderful!!
.A Byron series NOW !!! ...given the HBO treatment mutlitple episode/seasons...this stuff writes itself
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you.
My Dad lived in gorgeous Italian place called Lerici, as Did Byron, in a gorgeous white house on the coast road & within crawling distance of the nearest tavern. The sea there is called the "Golfo del Poetico", so these guys certainly made an impact!!!
Me too! I’m trying to think of someone to share it with.
I can just see Byron and Beau Brummel sauntering through Picadilly.
"...People aren't doing this in Jane Austin, right?" LOL
I have really enjoyed this series. I am curious about how Byron actually became so famous. There was no Internet, radio, television, or glossy magazines. Was it all word of mouth?
Most excellent opening 🤣
Rest is politics just posted too…. I’m torn which to listen to first! ❤️
In their day these Romantics took hand of politics and together traversed the sublime.
Which we too may do in travesty of our own time.
Brilliant story, I wonder if he was a narcissist....😂as well as everything else...😂
A narcissist as well as a nihilist
I left a comment on Episode 3 that Byron was a narcissistic psychopath - you are correct in your diagnosis.
Disfranchise is a perfectly good word. We don’t have to say disenfranchise. Just saying…😊
Oh dear...syphilis
I wonder if Byron is a much better character to study,than a poet.Presume he was a decent husband,father,brother,friend,but wrote the same poems. How darkness and filth is worshiped!
Thank you soooo much.
I hate how people venerate this kind of thing
How could such an obscene life story be of interest to so many people in the 1800s…
You didn't mention he is buried in Hucknall.
Ada Lovelace died of cancer, not dissipation. The lacuna you left in the discussion was suggestive of an incorrect inference.
Isn't it more likely that Alba, the Shelley's pet name for Byron (and the proposed name for Clair's child), is a reference to Byron's Scottishness, and his Scottish hinterlands. Alba being Scotland. Maybe not ! It seems more likely though?
Re 48:00, the first insurgency to be a cause célèbre in the European aristocracy? I think you’re forgetting one, maybe because you’re British!
Personally , I prefer the 007 to Venice visit by Connery in From Russia with love. But there you u are😉🍸🇬🇧
I really enjoy this podcast but i don't understand the fascination quth this man. 4 and a half episodes in Dominic says hes only thirty but has done so much in that time.
He went to Greece on holiday, wrote some poetry and was a serious creep, what am I missing?
Could you introduce y/selves at each épisode? Some of we riveted listeners are newbies ...
Thank you for joining the dots …ohhh human nature ,,,it’s complicated
Is this crack? I feel that I withdrawal if I abruptly stop listening
Byron the first influencer
4:43 wat a sentence
Avoidant attachment and compulsive behaviour? Being drunk all the time would disinhibit him. Bad boy genes and an insecure upbringing, no good father figure. I actually feel quite sorry for him.
Eye instead of nipples? 24C from Specsavers
The author Kay Redfield Jamison declares that Lord Byron suffered from bipolar 1 disease in her book “Touched By Fire”. That book is worth reading. She is a respected psychiatrist who has written extensively on mental illness. I’m surprised Tom doesn’t mention Byron’s mental illness.
Kay Redfield is out of her bloody mind.
@Nannas-cp5nd I have read all her books and articles. She is a psychiatrist here at ucla and a person who suffers from bi polar illness. I find her writings accurate and medically interesting. I like her book about artists, was it named Touched by Fire? I can believe Byron had a form of mania during the time of his many sexual escapades.
@Nannas-cp5nd I do not think you are right about Redfield Jameson’s motive. She has written about many well known artists. She wrote accurate and helpful books about her own mental illness. She speaks to doctors and the public about mental illness. I believe she is sincere.
@Nannas-cp5nda parasite on a vampire, so to speak?
Would Byron today be diagnosed as a narcissist?
Thank you for a wonderful series on Lord Byron.
Thoroughly entertaining!
lord byron and his friends all sound like rabbits on LSD
The more I learn about Byron, the lower my impression is if anyone thay likes him as anything more than an author and a fundraiser.
As we move from this wretched puritanical age this is apropos…
Your comment makes me think of a tree tearing out its own roots in the fatal delusion that it can fly.
Is it possible that Byron was Bi-polar do you think?
He was even more debauched than I knew. Just goes to show, elites can do what others cannot. Morals exist to keep people under control.
I would rather listen to you guys than watch some crappy movie. Seriously.
Is Tom deliberately mispronouncing “Don Juan?”
Apparently that is the way that Byron pronounced it 🤷🏼
I think it is Ju-an to rhyme with By-ron, because it is really about him. ?
Yes when reading to the poem it’s specifically “Don Joo-an” to rhyme correctly, Byron was very clear about that and it’s not the only mispronunciation joke in the poem 😊.
No.
Lord Byron, the Gary Glitter of the Nineteenth Century. If he was working class he would have been banged up and left to rot, but he was posh and wrote poetry, so the British love him.
Well said
Alegra should have been named Viagra
Thank you for this wonderful biopic. Beautifully presented.
Thanks!
Brilliant!