Lord Byron
The bad boy of Romanticism, Lordy Byron is known to have had a life full of excess and an arrogant, rebellious attitude to go with his poetic genius. One of his mistresses called him “mad, bad and dangerous to know,” and he even considered himself to be “a strange mélange of good and evil.” He incurred huge debts, had many scandalous love affairs (including a supposed fling with his half-sister), and, when he got sick of fame, voluntarily exiled himself to have a little peace and quiet
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