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TJ123-8-2009 LK VWD0011 Tradition Humanistic 6th Edition W:220mm x H:292mm 175L 115 Stora Enso M/A Magenta (V)The Romantic Hero
ca. 1780–1880
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Figure 28.1 THOMAS PHILLIPS, Lord Byron Sixth Baron in Albanian Costume, 1813. Oil on canvas, 29^1 ⁄ 2 241 ⁄ 2 in.
Upon the death of his great-uncle in 1798, Byron became the sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale. Entitled to a seat in the
House of Lords when he came of age in 1809, he only attended a few sessions. One of his lovers, Lady Caroline
Lamb, characterized Byron as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.”“O hero, with whose bloodied story
Long, long the earth will still resound.. .”
Pushkin