Described as Mad bad and dangerous to know by one of his lovers Lady Caroline Lamb Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic Flamboyant charismatic and brilliant he remains almost as notorious for his life as a political revolutionary sexual adventurer and traveller as he does for his literary work Yet he produced some of the most daring and exuberant poetry of the Romantic age from To Caroline and To Woman to the satirical English Bards and Scotch Reviewers his exotic Eastern tales and the colourful narrative of Childe Harolds Pilgrimage the work that made him famous overnight and gave birth to the idea of the brooding Byronic hero
