Lord Byron The Scandalous Romantic Poet

Lord Byron was a literary superstar whose life was far wilder than his famous poems. He was famously described as mad, bad, and dangerous to know due to his scandalous affairs and rebellious lifestyle.

While he is revered as a giant of Romantic literature, Byron spent much of his life fleeing debt and public outrage in Britain. He lived a life of excess across Europe and eventually died while supporting the Greek war of independence. His legacy is a strange mix of profound poetic genius and a reputation as the original celebrity bad boy. He left a cultural mark so deep that his daughter, Ada Lovelace, became the world's first computer programmer.