“Mad, bad and dangerous!”

“I woke up one morning and found myself famous!” wrote Lord Byron, after the publication of the first two cantos of his epic poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, in 1812.

Byron was the first English poet who achieved worldwide fame during his own lifetime. Childe Harold was a portrait of himself. The melancholic, romantic hero fleeing from the idle pleasures and a life of dispassion.

He was described as “mad, bad and dangerous to know!”by his mistress Lady Caroline Lamb.

His unfinished satirical master pieces Don Juan gives his views on society, money, power, poetry and the state of England.