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How “Sinners” Revives the Vampire

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/critics-at-large/how-sinners-revives-the-vampire

We're not sure about Mad or Bad, but Essie Fox's #Gothic novel of Lord Byron is certainly Dangerous! And decadently delicious looking with its black & crimson spredges.

Signed copies from Orenda available now!

#books #livres #GothicNovel #LordByron #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #Dangerous #EssieFox #OrendaBooks #Fiction #Roman

Cover of Dangerous by Essie Fox, black and red cover with a partial portrait of Lord Byron, outside the Edinburgh Bookshop

Side on view of the same book, this time angled to show off the psredges (sprayed, painted page edges) in black and red

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/22/oxford-academics-drank-from-cup-made-from-human-skull-until-2015-book-reveals

Just like #LordByron

#QuoteOfTheDay:

Lord Byron was aware that sometimes the clearest path to truth is through all the crud.

“Adversity is the first path to truth. “

#LikeAndShare #Suggested #qotd #inspiration #motivation #WordsOfWisdom #wordstoliveby #lordbyron

“Adversity is the first path to truth. “ - Lord Byron

#QuoteOfTheDay:

Lord Byron was aware that sometimes the clearest path to truth is through all the crud.

“Adversity is the first path to truth. “

#LikeAndShare #Suggested #qotd #inspiration #motivation #WordsOfWisdom #wordstoliveby #lordbyron

[16:06] In de voetsporen van Byron en Beethoven: een reis naar Bonn

De Engelse romanticus en dichter Lord Byron had er geen benul van, maar hij was toch echt een van de eerste reisinfluencers van zijn tijd, begin achttiende eeuw. Dankzij zijn lofdicht op de Rijn en de natuur bij Bonn, kwam het toerisme in deze regio op gang. En nu, ruim tweehonderd jaar later, treedt reisredacteur Sybylle Kroon in zijn voetsporen. En in die van Beethoven.

https://dvhn.nl/meer/vrij/Byron-Beethoven-Bonn-46114432.html

#Engelse #LordByron #eerste #achttiendeeeuw #Rijn #Bonn #SybylleKroon

[16:06] In de voetsporen van Byron en Beethoven: een reis naar Bonn

De Engelse romanticus en dichter Lord Byron had er geen benul van, maar hij was toch echt een van de eerste reisinfluencers van zijn tijd, begin achttiende eeuw. Dankzij zijn lofdicht op de Rijn en de natuur bij Bonn, kwam het toerisme in deze regio op gang. En nu, ruim tweehonderd jaar later, treedt reisredacteur Sybylle Kroon in zijn voetsporen. En in die van Beethoven.

https://lc.nl/meer/vrij/In-de-voetsporen-van-Byron-en-Beethoven-een-reis-naar-Bonn-46149286.html

#Engelse #LordByron #eerste #achttiendeeeuw #Rijn #Bonn #SybylleKroon

Leonard Cohen & Lord Byron: “Go No More A-Roving”
on DEAR HEATHER, Columbia Records 2004

Good night, Geordie.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYodS0HGy0

#Byron #LordByron #Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #LeonardCohen #music #song

Byron’s poem ☝️ borrows from the Scottish song “The Jolly Beggar” – often attributed to King James V (who reputedly liked to disguise himself as “the Gudeman of Ballangeich” to enjoy amorous adventures)

From Cromek’s SELECT SCOTTISH SONGS (1810):

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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wrqZPUBJqJwC&pg=PA53&dq=%22we%27ll%20gang%20nae%20mair%20a%20roving%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRzY_714rwAhX7VBUIHafXBksQuwUwBnoECAEQBw&fbclid=IwAR2y-nlehZgaooF6HbjkRUv65obO875dbi6w41K_0-PijVyX3SZiNiJSAMY#v=onepage&q&f=false

#Byron #LordByron #Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #folksong

The Jolly Beggar

Said to have been composed by King James, on a frolic of his own.
(Footnote: This Prince (whose character Dr. Percy thinks for wit and libertinism bears a great resemblance to that of his gay successor Charles II, was noted for strolling about his dominions in disguise, and for his frequent gallantries with country girls. It is of the present ballad that Mr. Walpole has remarked, there is something very ludicrous in the young woman’s distress when she thought her first favours had been thrown away upon a beggar.)

There was a jolly beggar, and a begging he was boun’,
And he took up his quarters into a land’art town,
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving,
Sae late into the night,
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving, boys,
Let the moon shine ne’er sae bright!

He wad neither ly in barn, nor yet wad he in byre,
But in ahint the ha’ door, or else afore the fire,
And we’ll gang nae mair, &c.

The beggar’s bed was made at e’en wi’ good clean straw and hay,
And in ahint the ha’ door, and there the beggar lay.
And we’ll gang nae mair, &c.

Quintessential Romantic Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died 201 years ago #OTD, 19 April 1824

Byron included this poem in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving

#Byron #LordByron #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism

So we’ll go no more a-roving
George Gordon, Lord Byron

So we’ll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And Love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we’ll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.

“Under the leadership of Candace Reilly, manager of Special Collections, Drew has successfully brought two major collections online: the unfinished monograph of Dr. Betty T. Bennett, a leading #MaryShelley scholar, and the broader Byron Society Collection, which contains realia related to the Romantic poet #LordByron.” #Archives

https://about.jstor.org/case-studies/drew-university-uses-jstor-digital-stewardship-services/

i find all of this extraordinary:

#MaryShelley created "#Frankenstein"

the seminal work (arguably the first work of #scienceFiction)-

humanity creating artificial life

in a ghost story writing contest suggested by #LordByron

the father of #AdaLovelace

who predicted #AI (the first person to seriously address the topic)-

humanity creating an artificial mind

something to think about this #womensHistoryMonth:

the artistic and technological mothers of our age

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24565995

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an interesting connection:

it was #LordByron who proposed the ghost story writing contest that led to #MaryShelley writing "#Frankenstein", and he was the father of another #womensHistoryMonth notable: #AdaLovelace

her story is well known, but less well known is that she predicted #AI

she rejected it

her rejection was not without teeth, because the first non-#scienceFiction champion of AI, #AlanTuring, spent an inordinate amount of time refuting her critique

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/ada-lovelace-worlds-first-computer-programmer-who-predicted-artificial

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#womensHistoryMonth

What do many consider the 1st #scienceFiction?

One of the first works of #horror (certainly #bodyHorror)?

#MaryShelley's "#Frankenstein"

Written as a *teenager*

A teenager who had recently lost a baby

I think that's key

Horror not from taking life

But creating life

She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain

The summer was cold and rainy so #LordByron (yes him) proposed a #ghostStory #writingContest

I think she won

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"I said with men, and with the thoughts of men, I held but slight communion; instead my joy was in the wilderness ....." (Byron)

Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony was first performed #OTD in 1886. Constantin Silvestri conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGTv-B6HULU

@classicalmusic #Tchaikovsky #Manfred #Silvestri #LordByron

Useless quote for 22 Mar:

"But now being lifted into high society,
And having pick’d up several odds and ends
Of free thoughts in his travels for variety,
He deem’d, being in a lone isle, among friends,
That, without any danger of a riot, he
Might for long lying make himself amends;
And, singing as he sung in his warm youth,
Agree to a short armistice with truth."

~ Lord Byron, "Don Juan" Canto III Stanza 83 (1819-1824)

#UselessQuote #LordByron

This one is from Newstead Abbey. Formerly the home of monks before the dissolution (apparently founded by Henry II as penance for the murder of Thomas Becket), it is better known as Lord Byron's manor.

There are some very nice peacocks there.

#Peacock #NewsteadAbbey #LordByron #Birds