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Oct. 29, 2009
Entertainment & Arts
“Still,” said my companion, “it’s worth the whole show to hear Derek Jacobi read ‘So, We’ll Go No More a Roving.’ ” You will gather that there are problems with “Byron--Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know” in its American premiere at the Doolittle Theatre.
Aug. 25, 1989
Sports
King goalie Byron Dafoe was named by his mother for Lord Byron, the 19th Century English poet who may have written better verse than Dafoe but probably had a worse goals-against average.
Nov. 15, 1995
Books
If you recall nothing else of the life of George Gordon, sixth Lord Byron, it should be the notation a lover, Lady Caroline Lamb, made on the day she met him: “mad, bad and dangerous to know.”
Feb. 25, 1996
Rake, rogue, rapscallion and all-around Romantic: Byron was the bad boy of his era, and its most charismatic celebrity.
Aug. 30, 1987
World & Nation
English romantic Lord Byron enjoys almost as much fame for his outrageous sex life as for his great works of poetry.
Aug. 14, 1988
Lord Byron’s Novel The Evening Land John Crowley William Morrow: 470 pp., $25.95
June 5, 2005
The time was the summer of 1816; the place, the Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva; the characters and plot so rife with Gothic-Romantic potential as to inspire--as it did, alas--a Ken Russell film.
Sept. 10, 1989
“The winter before Byron sailed for Greece, an English physician observed the poet’s melancholy and reported that Byron had asked him, ‘Which is the best and quickest poison?’
Aug. 1, 1993
Sexual Outlaw, Romantic Rebel, Sublime Poet : BYRON: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame; By Benita Eisler; (Alfred A. Knopf: 814 pp., $35) : BYRON: The Last Journey; By Harold Nicolson; (Prion Books: 260 pp., $19.95)
April 4, 1999